Publisher Correction: Tear resistance of soft collagenous tissues

Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/ss41467-019-08723-y, published online 15 February 2019.

The original version of this Article contained errors in the third and fourth sentences of the ‘Computational material models’ section of the “Methods”, which incorrectly read ‘The model is generated by randomly placing cross-links at a density of ρ_c = 0.075 m⁻² within a specified domain³¹. Four connectors representing the fibers are defined for each cross-link based on a random-weighted sampling process with uniform orientation distribution and a distribution in length resembling the shape of a Poisson distribution with mean L_c = 10 m, if not specified otherwise.’ The correct version states ‘ρ_c = 0.075 μm⁻²’ in place of ‘ρ_c = 0.075 m⁻²’ and ‘L_c = 10 μm’ rather than ‘L_c = 10 m’.

The second and third sentences of the fourth paragraph of the same section originally incorrectly read ‘The network was generated by seeding cross-links at a density ρ_c = 5 × 10⁻⁴ m⁻³ within the domain of a representative volume element (RVE) of the membrane. Fibers were then defined by four random connections between these crosslinks, uniformly distributed within the membrane plane and sampled from a distribution²⁷ p(l, φ) leading to a von-Mises distributed out-of-plane angle φ, controlled by the concentration parameter β = 3, and Poisson-like distributed fiber lengths with mean L_c = 10 m.’ The correct version states ‘ρ_c = 5 × 10⁻⁴ μm⁻³’ instead of ‘ρ_c = 5 × 10⁻⁴ m⁻³’, and ‘L_c = 10 μm’ instead of ‘L_c = 10 m’.

This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.