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A variety of fracture mechanics techniques have been utilised to assess the fracture toughness of bovine bone specimens containing a characterised crack (1–5). The compact tension test (6) method has proved particularly advantageous for a precise determination of the fracture mechanics parameters of KC (the critical stress intensity factor) and GC (the critical strain energy release rate) in that it is possible to propagate a crack at various controlled rates (7,8,9), and has shown that both parameters depend sensitively on bone density and the veloctiy of the propagating crack (10). To date such experiments have been restricted to a determination of longitudinal fracture in bovine bone.
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Bonfield, W., Behiri, J.C., Charalambides, C. (1985). Orientation and Age-Related Dependence of the Fracture Toughness of Cortical Bone. In: Perren, S.M., Schneider, E. (eds) Biomechanics: Current Interdisciplinary Research. Developments in Biomechanics, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7432-9_22
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