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Chapter A1 Cortical Bone

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The main constituents are the mineral hydroxyapatite, the fibrous protein collagen, and water. There is some non-collagenous organic material.s

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  1. Department of Biology, York University, York, YOl 5DD, UK

    J. Currey

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  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin Department of Biomedical Engineering and, MADISON, Wisconsin, USA

    William Murphy

  2. King of Prussia, Principal: IMN Biomaterials King of Prussia, King of Prussia, PA, New York, USA

    Jonathan Black

  3. Staffordshire University (Emeritus), Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

    Garth Hastings

Additional Reading

Additional Reading

Cowin, S.C. (ed.)(1989) Bone Mechanics Boca Raton: CRC Press.

A more rigorous, less chatty and less biologically, oriented approach than the following books by Currey and by Martin and Burr. The chapters on mechanics (2, 6 and 7), written by Cowin himself, are particularly authoritative.

Currey, J.D. (1984) The Mechanical Adaptation of Bones Princeton: University Press.

Out of print, new edition in preparation. Tries to deal with all aspects of mechanical properties of bone as a material and of whole bones. Not overly technical. Written from a general biological perspective, thus, does not concentrate on human material.

Martin, R.B. and Burr, D.B. (1989) Structure, Function and Adaptation of Compact Bone New York: Raven Press.

There are not many values of mechanical properties here, but the treatment of the biology of bone, and of fatigue of bone tissue, is excellent and the discussion of remodeling, although now somewhat out of date, is a very good introduction to this intellectually taxing topic.

Nigg, B.M. and Herzog, W. (eds)(1994) Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System John Wiley: Chichester.

Deals with many aspects of biomechanics, including locomotion, with an emphasis on human material. There is a full treatment of the measurement of many biomechanical properties.

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Currey, J. (2016). Chapter A1 Cortical Bone. In: Murphy, W., Black, J., Hastings, G. (eds) Handbook of Biomaterial Properties. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3305-1_1

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