2000/09/14 by Gemunu H. Gunaratne, Chamith S. Rajapaksa, Gunaratne, Gemunu H. +7
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Bone health and osteoporosis research #Elasticity and Material Modeling #Protein Structure and Dynamics #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech #q-bio
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0009221
4 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2001/08/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
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, \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.