Flexural and torsional analysis of five acrylics for use in external skeletal fixation

Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-58

  Davis, M ^a,c   Schulz, K S ^a   Fawcett, A ^b   Slater, Margaret R ^a   Roths, J B ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Texas Engineering Experiment Station   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrylics; External skeletal fixation; Mechanical analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032330364     PISSN: 09320814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1632609     Document Type: Article

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