Citation

Gunaratne GH, Rajapaksa CS, Bassler KE, Mohanty KK, Wimalawansa SJ. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2002; 88(6): 068101.

Affiliation

Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, American Physical Society)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11863854

Abstract

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 54, 15 094 (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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