Analysis of fracture processes in cortical bone tissue

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 110, Issue , 2013, Pages 448-458

  Li, Simin ^a   Abdel Wahab, Adel ^a   Silberschmidt, Vadim V ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Cortical bone; Extended finite element (X FEM); Fracture toughness; J integral; Variability

Indexed keywords

CORTICAL BONE; CORTICAL BONE TISSUES; DEFORMATION AND FRACTURE; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENTS; FINITE-ELEMENT MODELS; J INTEGRAL; TRANSMISSION OF FORCES; VARIABILITY;

ANISOTROPY; BIOMECHANICS; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE;

BONE;

EID: 84885835543     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2012.11.020     Document Type: Article

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