A Model for Bone Strength and Osteoporotic Fractures

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dc.creatorGunaratne, Gemunu H.
dc.creatorRajapaksa, Chamith S.
dc.creatorBassler, Kevin E.
dc.creatorMohanty, Kishore K.
dc.creatorWimalawansa, Sunil J.
dc.date2000-09-14
dc.date2001-08-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:38:43Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:38:43Z
dc.descriptionInner 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, {\bf 54}, 15094 (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.
dc.description4 pages, 5 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0009221
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0009221
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/16778
dc.subjectSoft Condensed Matter
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.subjectQuantitative Biology
dc.titleA Model for Bone Strength and Osteoporotic Fractures
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