title: Impacted bone stiffness measured during construction of morsellised bone samples.
abstract: Impacted morsellised bone is widely used for filling bone deficiencies during revision of total hip arthroplasties. However, the physical properties and mechanical behaviour of this bone material are still not well understood. In this study we recorded the increase of stiffness in pellets of morsellised bone during their construction. The construction of bone pellets was measured stroke-by-stroke to ascertain optimal stiffness. We have derived an impact-constrained module of elasticity, which represents the dynamic resistance in the granulated bone mass to impaction. Drop level of the impaction slap hammer increases constrained bone stiffness during impaction and load. However, increasing the number of impaction strokes at the highest drop level does not improve stiffness properties; no significant increase in stiffness was achieved after five strokes on each layer of morsellised bone.
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Centre for Orthopaedic Implant Research, Department of Orthopaedic, Trondheim University Hospital, N-7006 Trondheim, Norway.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fosse
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rønningen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lund-Larsen
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Benum
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Grande
mesh_terms: D015502:Absorptiometry, Photon; D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D015519:Bone Density; D001842:Bone and Bones; D002417:Cattle; D015203:Reproducibility of Results