A determination of the minimum sizes of representative volume elements for the prediction of cortical bone elastic properties

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 925-937

  Grimal, Quentin ^a,b,c   Raum, Kay ^d   Gerisch, Alf ^e   Laugier, Pascal ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Fachbereich Mathematik ^*  (France)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic microscopy; Cortical bone; Heterogeneity; Homogenization; Porosity gradient; Representative volume element

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPES; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; BONE; ELASTICITY; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; POROSITY; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; CORTICAL BONE; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENIZATION; HOMOGENIZATION TECHNIQUES; MESO SCALE; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; POROSITY GRADIENTS; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; POROSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG MODULUS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; AGED; BONE AND BONES; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; POROSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 81255142166     PISSN: 16177959     EISSN: 16822978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10237-010-0284-9     Document Type: Article

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