A Model for Bone Strength and Osteoporotic Fractures
Gunaratne, Gemunu H. · Rajapaksa, Chamith S. · Bassler, Kevin E. · Mohanty, Kishore K. · Wimalawansa, Sunil J.
Original · EN
Inner porous regions play a critical role in the load bearing capability of large bones.We show that an extension of disordered elastic networks [Chung et. al., Phys. Rev. B, 54, 15094 (1996)] exhibits analogs of several known mechanical features of bone. The "stress-backbones" and histograms of stress distributions for healthy and weak networks are shown to be qualitatively different. A hereto untested relationship between bone density and bone strength is presented.
English translation
This paper has no Arabic translation yet. Be the first: it takes a few seconds, and the result is stored for every future reader.