Aging societies suffer from an increasing incidence of bone fractures. Bone strength
depends on the amount of mineral measured by clinical densitometry, but also on the …

Microindentation in bone is a micromechanical testing technique routinely used to extract
material properties related to bone quality. As the analysis of microindentation data is based …

Prevention and treatment of osteoporosis rely on understanding of the micromechanical
behaviour of bone and its influence on fracture toughness and cell-mediated adaptation …

Low bone strength is a major risk factor for osteoporotic fractures and is only partially
determined by clinical densitometry. Accumulated micro-damage induces residual strains …

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of anisotropy of cortical bone
tissue on measurement of properties such as direction-dependent moduli and hardness …

Anisotropy is one of the most peculiar aspects of cortical bone mechanical behaviour, and
the numerical approach can be successfully used to investigate aspects of bone tissue …

Mechanical intrinsic anisotropy and architectural arrangements of building blocks of lamellar
bone confer mechanical and structural anisotropy to the tissue as well as a size dependence …

A new anisotropic elastic-viscoplastic damage constitutive model for bone is proposed using
an eccentric elliptical yield criterion and nonlinear isotropic hardening. A micromechanics …

The loads that bones can sustain strongly depend on the composition and microarchitecture
of bone tissue. When studying bone failure, experiments and simulations are often applied …

The objective of this work was to characterize cross sectional profiles of microindentations in
wet and dry bone specimens to better understand material behavior at the indentation site …