title: Tensile and compressive stress yield criteria for cancellous bone.
abstract: Experimentally based isotropic tensile and compressive strain yield criteria for cancellous bone are shown to imply tensile and compressive stress yield criteria, respectively. In particular, it is deduced that the directional variation of uniaxial yield stress is proportional to the one of Young's modulus. The obtained tensile and compressive stress yield criteria, in turn, imply information about the total stress yield criterion for cancellous bone.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, The New York Center for Biomedical Engineering, The School of Engineering, The City College of New York, 138th Street and Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA. scowin@earthlink.net
authors.forename: Stephen C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Cowin
authors.forename: Q-C Q-C
authors.initials: QC
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000502:physiology*; D019245:Compressive Strength; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013718:Tensile Strength