@article{ref1,
title="Model for bone strength and osteoporotic fractures",
journal="Physical review letters",
year="2002",
author="Gunaratne, Gemunu H. and Rajapaksa, Chamith S. and Bassler, Kevin E. and Mohanty, Kishore K. and Wimalawansa, Sunil J.",
volume="88",
number="6",
pages="068101-068101",
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 &quot;stress backbones&quot; 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.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0031-9007",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}