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Fatigue and Fracture Resistance of Bone

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In Chap. 7, we examined the mechanical properties of bone when it is fractured by a load sufficient to exceed the failure stress of the material. Structures may also fail more gradually. There are two principal ways in which this can happen: creep and fatigue. In both, a stress less than the ultimate stress is applied, and damage from this stress grows and accumulates until failure occurs.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    In a plane strain situation, the strains are all within a plane, i.e., deformations perpendicular to the plane may be assumed zero. Plane stress is similarly defined in terms of stress components perpendicular to the plane. Thanks to Poisson's ratio, the two situations are not the same.

  2. 2.

    Unpublished data by Schaffler and co-workers extend this to 45 million cycles.

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