Bone fracture: When the cracks begin to show

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 610-612

  Fratzl, Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; CRACK PROPAGATION;

BONE FRACTURE; STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS; SUBMILLIMETRE;

CRACKS;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FRACTURE; HARDNESS; HUMAN; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BONE AND BONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FRACTURES, BONE; HARDNESS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 49249107140     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2240     Document Type: Short Survey

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