title: The material properties of bone-particle impregnated PMMA.
abstract: The elastic Young's modulus and shear modulus of bone-particle impregnated polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) has been measured experimentally at room temperature as a function of bone particle concentration. It was found that the moduli increased with increasing bone particle content. This increase was less than the stiffness increase predicted by higher-order composite theory [1, 2] under the assumption of perfect bonding between particles and matrix. It was concluded that a bond existed but that it was not a perfect bond.
mesh_terms: D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000502:physiology*; D004548:Elasticity; D006801:Humans; D008768:Methylmethacrylates; D008954:Models, Biological; D012447:Sacrum; D013131:Spine; D013314:Stress, Mechanical
chemical_list: D008768:Methylmethacrylates