Structural properties of immature canine bone.
Structural properties of growing canine long bones were determined from three and four-point bending tests. Mechanical and geometric properties were found to follow a biphasic growth process, with a rapid increase in bending strength and moment of inertia from l to 24 wk of age and a substantially decreased rate thereafter to maturity. Predicted bone tissue material properties were also found to follow this biphasic developmental process.
D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D001846:Bone Development; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000502:physiology*; D004285:Dogs; D004548:Elasticity; D013718:Tensile Strength