Microstructural and Mechanical Properties of Human Ribs
The direction of osteons in cortical bone has been shown to be well correlated with the strongest loading direction of the bone as a whole. Therefore, determining the orientation of osteons in the rib cage is an important step in understanding the behavior of the rib cage under mechanical load. A to...
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Virginia Tech
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/10137 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04252003-124608 |