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Bone Toughness and Crack Propagation: An Experimental Study

Procedia Engineering, ISSN: 1877-7058, Vol: 74, Page: 464-467
2014
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  • Citations
    24
    • Citation Indexes
      23
    • Patent Family Citations
      1
      • Patent Families
        1
  • Captures
    57

Article Description

Bone is a topic of great interest for researchers, such as biologists or engineers, both interested in understanding the structure- related properties of bone and how they are affected by aging, disease and therapies. In particular, a topic of common interest between medicine and engineering is the fracture behavior of bone. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the mechanical behavior of bone is helpful to predict the fracture risk, but it can also provide the basis for the design of de novo biomimetic materials. In this paper, we show the initial results of an experimental study of the mechanical behavior of bovine bone, with a special focus on fracture toughness. The latter is evaluated under tensile and bending loading, by following the ASTM adopted for metals. Finally, we perform microscopic observations to better understand the fracture behavior and correlate it with the microscopic structure.

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