Relations between the fatigue life and histology of adult human cortical bone

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Evans, F. Gaynor¹; Riolo, Michael L.²

Relations between the fatigue life and histology of adult human cortical bone

J Bone Joint Surg. December 1970;52A(8):1579-1586

©1970 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Incorporated

Affiliations

¹Department of Anatomy, The University of Michigan, Medical Science II, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

²Center for Human Growth and Development, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
Abstract
1. Positive correlations at the 0.01 significance level occur between the fatigue life of bone and the percentage of osteons and of osteons plus fragments in the break area. Equally high negative correlations are found between the fatigue life of bone and the percentage of interstitial lamellae in the break area.
2. These correlations suggest that osteons tend to increase the fatigue life of bone and interstitial lamellae to decrease it. Osteons and interstitial lamellae have the opposite effect on the static tensile strength of bone.
3. Osteons are analogous to sticks, thus the more osteons in a given bone specimen the longer its fatigue life. Conversely, the more interstitial lamellae in a specimen, the fewer the number of osteons, and the shorter is the fatigue life.
4. Failure of a bone specimen under repeated flexure loading is comparable to breaking a stick by bending it back and forth. Thus, a bundle of sticks must be bent back and forth more times, that is, it has a longer fatigue life, than a single stick.
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DOI: 10.2106/00004623-197052080-00005

PubMed: 5483079

WoS: A1970I139500005

Ovid: 00004623-197052080-00005

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