Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2009

Abstract

Relaxation studies were conducted on specimens of bovine cancellous bone at post-yield strains. Stress and strain were measured for 1000 s and the relaxation modulus was determined. Fifteen cylindrical, cancellous bone specimens were removed from one bovine femur in the anterior–posterior direction. The relaxation modulus was found to be a function of strain. Therefore cancellous bone is non-linearly viscoelastic/viscoplastic in the plastic region. A power law regression was fit to the relaxation modulus data. The multiplicative constant was found to be statistically related through a power law relationship to both strain (p < 0.0005) and apparent density (p < 0.0005) while the power coefficient was found to be related through a power law relationship, E(t, ε)= A(ε)t-n(ε), to strain (p < 0.0005), but not apparent density.

Journal

Journal of Biomechanics

DOI

10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.08.005

Volume

42

Issue

16

Pages

2728-2733

Publisher

Elsevier

Rights

Copyright © 2009 Elsevier

Comments

This is peer-reviewed accepted manuscript of the article published in the Journal of Biomechanics, 42(16):2728-2733. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.08.005

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