Toughness and damage susceptibility in human cortical bone is proportional to mechanical inhomogeneity at the osteonal-level
Limitations associated with current clinical fracture risk assessment tools highlight the need for increased understanding of the fracture mechanisms of the bone and, ideally, a means of assessing this in vivo. Being a multi-layered hierarchical structure, the overall properties of the bone are dict...
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2015-07-01.
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