Fracture toughening mechanism of cortical bone: An experimental and numerical approach

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 983-992

  An, Bingbing ^a   Liu, Yang ^b   Arola, Dwayne ^c   Zhang, Dongsheng ^a,d  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Baltimore County   (United States)

^d SHANGHAI KEY LABORATORY OF MECHANICS IN ENERGY ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Compact tension; Cortical bone; Fracture toughness; Numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPACT TENSION; COMPACT TENSION SPECIMEN; CORTICAL BONE; CRACK BIFURCATION; CRACK EXTENSION; CRACK-GROWTH RESISTANCE; FRACTURE PROPERTY; FRACTURE RESPONSE; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION; MICROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL MODELING; PROPAGATION MECHANISM; R-CURVES; RESISTANCE CURVES; TOUGHENING MECHANISMS; TRANSVERSE DIRECTIONS; VIRTUAL MULTI-DIMENSIONAL INTERNAL BONDS;

BONE; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BONE STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE RESISTANCE; FRACTURE TOUGHENING; LIGAMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVERSE FRACTURE; VIRTUAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTERNAL BOND; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CATTLE; FRACTURES, BONE; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79960559859     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2011.02.012     Document Type: Article

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