Cement lines and interlamellar areas in compact bone as strain amplifiers - Contributors to elasticity, fracture toughness and mechanotransduction

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 235-251

  Nobakhti, Sabah ^a   Limbert, Georges ^a   Thurner, Philipp J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL COMPOSITE; INTERFACE STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL SIMULATIONS; MICRO-STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; MICROMECHANICAL FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; MICROSTRUCTURAL FEATURES; PARAMETRIC FINITE ELEMENTS; THREE-POINT BENDING TEST;

BONE; CEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; TISSUE;

BONE CEMENT;

BONE CEMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE MARROW; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CORTICAL BONE; COW; DIAPHYSIS; ELASTICITY; FEMUR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTURE; HAVERSIAN CANAL; LONG BONE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ELASTICITY; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FEMUR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HAVERSIAN SYSTEM; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84885091475     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2013.09.011     Document Type: Article

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