Elastic coefficients of animal bone

Lang, Sidney B.

Affiliations

¹Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Livermore 94550

²Present address: Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal 110, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The elastic stiffness coefficients of dried bovine phalanx and femur and of fresh bovine phalanx were measured by an ultrasonic technique. An analysis of the crystallographic structure of the principal components of bone and its piezoelectric and pyroelectric behavior showed that bone is a texture that has the same elastic coeffcient matrix as a hexagonal single crystal. The five elastic stiffness coefficients of fresh phalanx are: C₁₁, 1.97; C₁₂, 1.21; C₁₃, 1.26; C₃₃, 3.20; and C₄₄, 0.54 (all in units of 10¹¹ dynes per square centimeter). Value of axial and transverse Young's and shear moduli, compressibility, and the three Poisson's ratios were calculated.

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DOI: 10.1126/science.165.3890.287

PubMed: 5787984

WoS: A1969D668600019

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