Fracture Mechanics of Osteonal Cortical Bone

Application of fiber-matrix composite fracture mechanics methods to predict strength, fracture process in osteonal cortical bone. It has been long hypothesized that cortical bone behaves like a fiber-matrix composite material without any verification. The purpose of this study is to verify applicability of current fracture mechanics techniques for fiber-matrix composites to cortical bone, to quantify contributions of various microstructural components to fracture properties of cortical bone.

Application of fiber-matrix composite fracture mechanics methods to predict strength, fracture process in osteonal cortical bone. It has been long hypothesized that cortical bone behaves like a fiber-matrix composite material without any verification. The purpose of this study is to verify applicability of current fracture mechanics techniques for fiber-matrix composites to cortical bone, to quantify contributions of various microstructural components to fracture properties of cortical bone.

Related Publications

  1. Dong, X. N., Huang, Y. Y. and Guo, X. E. Transversely Isotropic Model of Osteonal Cortical Bone: Contribution of Haversian and Resorptive Porosity, presented at the Annual Winter Meeting of ASME, Nashville, Tennessee, 1999. 
     
  2. Dong, X. N. and Guo, X. E. The Influence of Experiment Conditions on Osteon Pushout Tests, Proc. 2001 ASME IMECE2001, BED-23031, New York, NY, Nov.11-16, 2001.
     
  3. Dong, X. N. and Guo, X. E. The dependence of transversely isotropic elasticity of human femoral cortical bone on porosity. J Biomech. 2004 37(8):1281-7.
     
  4. X. Neil Dong, Xiaohui Zhang, Y. Young Huang, X. Edward Guo. Generalized self-consistent estimate for the effective elastic moduli of fiber-reinforced composite materials with multiple transversely isotropic inclusions. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 47 (2005) 922¨C940.