Effects of age and loading rate on equine cortical bone failure

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-75

  Kulin, Robb M ^a   Jiang, Fengchun ^a   Vecchio, Kenneth S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Compression; Confocal microscopy; Equine bone; Fracture; Hopkinson bar; Loading rate effects; Toughness

Indexed keywords

AGING; COMPRESSION; EQUINE BONE; HOPKINSON BAR; LOADING RATE EFFECTS;

BARS (METAL); BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BONE; BRITTLE FRACTURE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DYNAMIC LOADS; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; LOADING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; SILICATE MINERALS; STRAIN RATE;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPRESSION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMUR; FRACTURE; HORSE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; COLLAGEN; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTICITY; FEMUR; FRACTURES, BONE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 78649317580     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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