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Effect of shape and size of specimens on the mechanical indicators and the fracture mode of bone tissue in compression tests

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Report presented to the Third All-Union Conference on Polymer Mechanics, Riga, November 10–12, 1976.

N. É. Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School. Scientific-Research Laboratory, Ministry of Health of the USSR, Moscow. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 3, pp. 553–557, May–June, 1977.

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Zasypkin, V.V., Matveichuk, I.V., Bogatov, V.N. et al. Effect of shape and size of specimens on the mechanical indicators and the fracture mode of bone tissue in compression tests. Polymer Mechanics 13, 478–481 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00859440

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