Respective roles of organic and mineral components of human cortical bone matrix in micromechanical behavior: An instrumented indentation study

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1473-1482

  Bala, Y ^a,b,c   Depalle, B ^a,b,c   Douillard, T ^d   Meille, S ^d   Clement P ^d   Follet, H ^a,b,c   Chevalier, J ^d   Boivin, G ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Collagen maturity; Hardness; Human cortical bone; Indentation; Mineralization

Indexed keywords

BONE BIOPSY; BONE FRAGILITY; BONE TISSUE; CORTICAL BONE; CRYSTALLINITIES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED MICROSPECTROSCOPY; HIGH LOAD; HUMAN CORTICAL BONE; INSTRUMENTED INDENTATION; INTER-RELATIONSHIPS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MICROMECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MINERAL COMPONENT; MINERAL PHASE; MINERALIZATION; MULTI-SCALE COMPOSITES; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; OSTEONS; OSTEOPOROTIC; PLASTIC BEHAVIOR; REMODELING ACTIVITY; STRUCTURAL HIERARCHIES; STRUCTURAL UNIT; TISSUE COMPOSITION; TYPE I COLLAGEN;

BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; DEFORMATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HARDNESS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANISMS; MICROOPTICS; MINERALOGY; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS; TISSUE;

BONE;

COLLAGEN; OSTEONECTIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE BIOPSY; BONE DEFORMATION; BONE DENSITY; BONE MATRIX; BONE TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CONTACT HARDNESS; CORTICAL BONE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED MICROSPECTROSCOPY; HARDNESS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILIAC BONE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MECHANICS; MICROMECHANICS; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; MINERALIZATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

AGED; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITY; COLLAGEN TYPE I; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HARDNESS; HUMANS; ILIUM; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MINERALS; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960558420     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2011.05.017     Document Type: Article

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