Evaluation of fracture properties of cancellous bone tissues using digital image correlation/wedge splitting test method.

Evaluation of fracture properties of cancellous bone tissues using digital image correlation/wedge splitting test method. J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2019 Oct 05;102:103469 Authors: Bokam P, Germaneau A, Rigoard P, Vendeuvre T, Valle V Abstract The fracture mechanics (FM) parameters of cancellous bone tissues are very important from a clinical point of view especially for the bone cement augmentation. From the literature review, one can observe that the experimental determination of fracture mechanic parameters of cancellous bone are still lacking. This can be due to the conditions associated with the unstable crack propagation in the cancellous bone and lack of tools to extract and measure the parameters (like crack opening displacement (COD) and crack length) in the course of fracture tests, which are necessary to evaluate the fracture properties. To address above mentioned, a platform was developed integrating an optical measurement technique like digital image correlation (DIC) with classical wedge splitting test (WST) method to extract precise and real crack tip positions, crack opening displacement (COD) at each load step. These indeed used for the evaluation of the fracture mechanic properties (fracture toughness, specific fracture energy (Gf)) of the cancellous bone. Two approaches were used to evaluate the fracture mechanic properties of the bone. The first method is based on the global approach, which was widely used in the ...
Source: Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials - Category: Materials Science Authors: Tags: J Mech Behav Biomed Mater Source Type: research