Fracture resistance of human cortical bone across multiple length-scales at physiological strain rates

Biomaterials

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 5472-5481

  Zimmermann, Elizabeth A ^a   Gludovatz, Bernd ^a   Schaible, Eric ^a   Busse, Björn ^a,b   Ritchie, Robert O ^a,c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone; Fracture toughness; Plasticity; Strain rate; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

BONE; CRACKS; DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTICITY; STRAIN RATE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRACK-TIP SHIELDING; DEFORMATION AND FRACTURE; INELASTIC DEFORMATION; MICROSTRUCTURAL LEVELS; MINERALIZED COLLAGEN FIBRILS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRAINS; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; TOUGHENING MECHANISMS;

BONE CEMENT;

FIBRIL ASSOCIATED COLLAGEN;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE MATRIX; CHEMISTRY; FRACTURE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BONE MATRIX; FIBRIL-ASSOCIATED COLLAGENS; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84899481432     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.03.066     Document Type: Article

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