Stress concentrations in fractured compact bone simulated with a special class of anisotropic gradient elasticity

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1099-1107

  Gitman, Inna M ^a   Askes, Harm ^a   Kuhl, Ellen ^b   Aifantis, Elias C ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic gradient elasticity; Bone fracture; Bone stress concentrations

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MATERIAL; ANISOTROPIC SOURCES; BONE FRACTURE; COMPACT BONE; CORTICAL BONE; EFFECTIVE STIFFNESS; GRADIENT ELASTICITY; HAVERSIAN SYSTEM; HIGHER ORDER; INTERNAL LENGTH; LENGTH SCALE EFFECTS; LENGTH SCALE PARAMETER; PRE-EXISTING CRACK; SPECIAL CLASS; STRAIN GRADIENTS; TRANSVERSAL DIRECTIONS;

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELASTICITY; ELASTOHYDRODYNAMICS; FRACTURE; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

BONE;

EID: 77249142394     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2009.11.020     Document Type: Article

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