Relations between the microscopic structure and tensile strength of human bone

Evans, F. Gaynor

Affiliations

¹Institute of Human Anatomy, University of Bari

²Department of Anatomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Links

DOI: 10.1159/000141417

PubMed: 13626400

WoS: A1958WQ18300094

History

Received: 1957-06-20

Cited Works (6)

Year	Entry
1917	Koch JC. The laws of bone architecture. Am J Anat. March 1917;21(2):177-298.
1951	Evans FG, Lebow M. Regional differences in some of the physical properties of the human femur. J Appl Physiol. 1951;3(9):563-572.
1957	Evans FG. Stress and Strain in Bones: Their Relation to Fractures and Osteogenesis. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas; 1957.
1876	Rauber AA. Elasticität Und Festigkeit Der Knochen: Anatomisch-Physiologische Studie. Leipzig, Germany: Verlag Von Wilhelm Engelmann; 1876.
1952	Evans FG, Lebow M. The strength of human compact bone as revealed by engineering technics. Am J Surg. March 1952;83(3):326-331.
1952	Dempster WT, Liddicoat RT. Compact bone as a non-isotropic material. Am J Anat. 1952;91(3):331-362.

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1973	Evans FG. Mechanical Properties of Bone. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas; 1973.
2025	Skedros JG. Biomechanical foundations of histological analysis in limb bones: the crucial role of load-complexity categorization and collagen fiber orientation analysis when interpreting bone adaptation. In: Stout SD, Crowder C, eds. Bone Histology: A Biological Anthropological Perspective. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press; 2025:150-224.
1973	Burstein AH, Reilly DT, Frankel VH. Failure characteristics of bone and bone tissue. In: Kenedi RM, ed. Perspectives in Biomedical Engineering: Proceedings of a Symposium Organised in Association With the Biological Engineering Society and Held in the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, June 1972. Baltimore, MD: University Park Press; 1973:131-134.
1964	Ascenzi A, Bonucci E. The ultimate tensile strength of single osteons. Acta Anat. 1964;58(1-2):160-183.
1965	Sedlin ED. A rheologic model for cortical bone: a study of physical properties of human femoral samples. Acta Orthop Scand. 1965;(suppl 83):1-77.
1976	Evans FG. Mechanical properties and histology of cortical bone from younger and older men. Anat Rec. 1976;185(1):1-12.
1997	Yeni YN, Brown CU, Wang Z, Norman TL. The influence of bone morphology on fracture toughness of the human femur and tibia. Bone. November 1997;21(4):453-459.
1977	Saha S, Hayes WC. Relations between tensile impact properties and microstructure of compact bone. Calcif Tiss Res. December 1977;24(1):65-72.
1961	Frost HM, Roth H, Villanueva AR. Physical characteristics of bone, III: a semimicro measurement of unit shear stress. Henry Ford Hosp Med Bull. 1961;9(1):157-162.
1969	Evans FG, Vincentelli R. Relation of collagen fiber orientation to some mechanical properties of human cortical bone. J Biomech. 1969;2(1):63-73.
1971	Katz JL. Hard tissue as a composite material, I: bounds on the elastic behavior. J Biomech. October 1971;4(5):455-473.
1974	Simkin A, Robin G. Fracture formation in differing collagen fiber pattern of compact bone. J Biomech. 1974;7(2):183-188.
1975	Currey JD. The effects of strain rate, reconstruction and mineral content on some mechanical properties of bovine bone. J Biomech. 1975;8(1):81-86.
1985	Vincentelli R, Grigoroi M. The effect of Haversian remodeling on the tensile properties of human cortical bone. J Biomech. 1985;18(3):201-207.
1986	Corondan G, Haworth WL. A fractographic study of human long bone. J Biomech. 1986;19(3):207-218.
2000	Brown CU, Yeni YN, Norman TL. Fracture toughness is dependent on bone location: a study of the femoral neck, femoral shaft, and the tibial shaft. J Biomed Mater Res. March 5, 2000;49(3):380-389.
2000	Yeni YN, Norman TL. Calculation of porosity and osteonal cement line effects on the effective fracture toughness of cortical bone in longitudinal crack growth. J Biomed Mater Res. September 5, 2000;51(3):504-509.
1974	Reilly DT, Burstein AH. The mechanical properties of cortical bone. J Bone Joint Surg. 1974;56A(5):1001-1022.
1993	McCalden RW, McGeough JA, Barker MB, Court-Brown CM. Age-related changes in the tensile properties of cortical bone: the relative importance of changes in porosity, mineralization, and microstructure. J Bone Joint Surg. 1993;75A(8):1193-1205.
1989	Kuhn JL, Goldstein SA, Choi K, London M, Feldkamp LA, Matthews LS. Comparison of the trabecular and cortical tissue moduli from human iliac crests. J Orthop Res. November 1989;7(6):876-884.
1968	Mather BS. Variation with age and sex in strength of the femur. Med Biol Eng. 1968;6(2):129-132.
1974	Pope MH, Murphy MC. Fracture energy of bone in a shear mode. Med Biol Eng. November 1974;12(6):763-767.
2002	Egerer AK. The Relationship Between the Osteonal Cement Line and Bone Strength [PhD thesis]. Loma Linda University; June 2002.
1998	Robling AG. Histomorphometric Assessment of Mechanical Loading History from Human Skeletal Remains: The Relation Between Micromorphology and Macromorphology At the Femoral Midshaft [PhD thesis]. University of Missouri; December 1998.
1973	Margel-Robertson DR. Studies of Fracture in Bone [PhD thesis]. Stanford University; March 1973.
1987	Stover SM. Dorsal Metacarpal Disease in Thoroughbred Horses: Relationship to the Development of the Third Metacarpal Bone [PhD thesis]. Davis, University of California; 1987.
2010	Beckstrom AB. Histologic and Geometric Data Challenge the Assumption of Habitual Superior-Inferior (tension-Compression) Bending Across the Chimpanzee Proximal Femur [Master's thesis]. University of Utah; August 2010.
1998	Yeni YN. Fracture Mechanics of Human Cortical Bone: The Relationship of Geometry, Microstructure and Composition With the Fracture of the Tibia, Femoral Shaft and the Femoral Neck [PhD thesis]. West Virginia University; 1998.
1993	Sedman AJ. Mechanical Failure and Antler: The Accumulation of Bone of Damage [PhD thesis]. York, UK: University of York; September 1993.