Bovine intervertebral disc mechanical characterisation dataset. Mengoni 2017, licensed under CC-BY by University of Leeds This dataset contains the data supporting (see related resources) "Annulus fibrosus functional extrafibrillar and fibrous mechanical behaviour, experimental and computational characterisations" by Marlène Mengoni, Oluwasegun Kayode, Sebastien N.F. Sikora, Fernando Y. Zapata-Cornelio, Diane E. Gregory and Ruth K. Wilcox Journal of The Royal Society, Open Science CONTENT: hoop-strain.zip: photographic images of 8 disc samples at time 0, 10min and 25 min (only 5 paired samples used in the paper); size and angular measurements; and R script for statistics input files (baseline).zip: inp files (for Abaqus) of 6 osteodiscs models (baseline models) - names in format TxCy with x the tail identifier and y the disc level osteodiscModelTools.py: python file to run in Abaqus that finishes the Abaqus models, run the FEA and post-process it FE results.zip: all outputs of tri-linear fits on all sensitivity analysis FE models, associated graphs and R scripts for statistics species comparison.zip: matlab scripts run to generate Figure 7 of the paper.