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Mechanical properties and the hierarchical structure of bone

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Further investigations of mechanical properties at the "materials level", in addition to the studies at the 'structural level' are needed to fill the gap in present knowledge and to achieve a complete understanding of the mechanical properties of bone.
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This article is published in Medical Engineering & Physics.The article was published on 1998-03-01. It has received 2352 citations till now.

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Quantitative and qualitative bone imaging: A review of synchrotron radiation microtomography analysis in bone research.

TL;DR: How SRμCT has been applied to bone research is reviewed to elucidate the mechanisms by which bone aging, disease, and other factors affect bone fragility and resistance to fracture.
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Effect of material and structural factors on fracture behaviour of mineralised collagen microfibril using finite element simulation.

TL;DR: The results show that the number of cross-links and the density of mineral as well as Young's modulus of mineral have an important influence on the strength of mineralised collagen microfibrils which in turn clarify the bone fracture on a macroscale.
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Multiscale homogenization and localization of materials with hierarchical porous microstructures

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of porosity redistribution at different microstructural scales on the homogenized moduli and local stress fields of periodic materials with hierarchical porosities was investigated.
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Effects of pore size and porosity on cytocompatibility and osteogenic differentiation of porous titanium

TL;DR: Porous Ti with a porosity of 53.3 ± 1.7 μm fabricated by powder metallurgy process showed the expected mechanical property and improved osseointegration as implants in dental treatment.
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Mechanical property enhancement in laminates through control of morphology and crystal orientation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate and provide a strategy for laminate thin films, which reveals that the control of local crystal anisotropy across laminates together with the optimized layered arrangement are essential for their mechanical behavior.
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The compressive behavior of bone as a two-phase porous structure.

TL;DR: These power relationships, which were shown to hold for all bone in the skeleton, allow meaningful predictions of bone tissue strength and stiffness based on in vivo density measurements.
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Young's modulus of trabecular and cortical bone material: ultrasonic and microtensile measurements.

TL;DR: The results suggest that when considered mechanically, cortical and trabecular bone are not the same material.
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The mechanical behaviour of cancellous bone

TL;DR: The results of this previous study are applied to cancellous bone in an attempt to further understand its mechanical behaviour and the results agree reasonably well with experimental data available in the literature.
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Elastic properties of human cortical and trabecular lamellar bone measured by nanoindentation

TL;DR: An experimental investigation was undertaken to measure the intrinsic elastic properties of several of the microstructural components of human vertebral trabecular bone and tibial cortical bone by the nanoindentation method, and differences in the measured moduli are statistically significant.
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