A Model for Bone Strength and Osteoporotic Fractures

Details A Model for Bone Strength and Osteoporotic Fractures A Model for Bone Strength and Osteoporotic Fractures

2000-09-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0009221v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 5 figures

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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, {\bf 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.

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