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Fragility Assessment of Bovine Cortical Bone Using Scratch Tests
Published on: November 30, 2017
Orientation effect and locational variation in elastic-plastic compressive properties of bovine cortical bone
Sachin Kalsi1, Jagjit Singh1, Karan Vir Saini2
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, India.
Abstract:
Bone is a highly heterogeneous and anisotropic material with a hierarchical structure. The effect of diaphysis locations and directions of loading on elastic-plastic compressive properties of bovine femoral cortical bone was examined in this study. The impact of location and loading directions on elastic-plastic compressive properties of cortical bone was found to be statistically insignificant in this study. The variances of most of the compressive properties were also observed to be location and directionality independent except for the locational differences in modulus of resilience (distal to central for longitudinal loading) and plastic work (central to distal for transverse loading) as well as differences in variances of the modulus of resilience and elastic modulus values for two directions of loading. The micro-mechanisms of cortical bone failure for longitudinal and transverse directions of loading were considered to be responsible for the difference in variances in the later properties values as well as for the maximum and minimum coefficient of variation (CV) obtained for compressive properties in two directions of loading. The representative cubical volume at the tested hierarchical level contained all unique microstructural features of the plexiform bone and therefore produced the homogeneous and isotropic elastic-plastic compressive properties of cortical bone. It is expected that the outcome of this study may be helpful in the area of bone tissue engineering and finite element simulation of cortical bone.
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