Identification of the elastic symmetry of bone and other materials.
A simplified classification scheme for the elastic symmetries of a solid is applied to the identification of the elastic symmetry of a material by three different methods--visual, stereological and numerical algorithm. Each method is illustrated with an application to bone tissues, but the methods apply to all materials.
Cowin
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Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118.
Mehrabadi
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D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D004548:Elasticity; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D013314:Stress, Mechanical