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Properties of Bone Flashcards

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Functions of the skeleton

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  • Protect vital soft tissue organs
  • Support and maintain posture
  • Movement (attachment for muscles, act as levers)
  • Mineral storage (calcium and phosphorus)
  • Hematopoiesis (red marrow)
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Bones are composed of

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  • Calcium hydroxyapatite
  • Water
  • Collage
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Calcium hydroxyapatite content of bone

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  • Calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate

- 60-70% of all minerals

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Water content of bone

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  • 25-30%
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Role of collagen in bone structure

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  • Provides flexibility
  • Provides strength
  • Loss of collagen with agin
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Wolff’s Law

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  • Changes in the form and function of a bone are followed by changes in its internal structure
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Application of Wolff’s Law

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  • Bone “adapts” to the load it is placed under
  • Will become stronger with increased load
  • Will become weaker with decreased load
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Bone adapts to its macro and microarchitecture

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  • Prevents fragility

- Prevents fracture

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Bone changes its shape

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  • Absorbs compression energy
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Bone is light in weight

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  • Allows for rapid movement
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Bone is a dynamic structure

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  • Porosity can change:
  • Aging
  • Osteoporosis
  • Adaptive response
  • Bone adapts to its mechanical environment
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Criteria for “ideal” bone

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  • Resist mechanical loads
  • Resist torsional loads
  • Permit movement
  • Provides a source of calcium
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Bones meet criteria for ideal via

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  • Bone mass
  • Geometry
  • Tissue material composition
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External forces applies perpendicular to bone

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  • Axial load (along the axis)
  • Compression
  • Tension
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External forces applied parallel to bone

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  • Shearing or torsional
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Axial load effects

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  • May be applied in compression or tension

- In walking body weight and ground reactive force provide an axial load

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Bending of bone occurs when

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  • Compressive axial load occurs eccentrically
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Two types of biomechanical forces on bone

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  • Stresses or loads

- Strains

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Stresses or loads

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  • Force applied to the outside of a structure
  • Ground reactive force
  • Body weight borne by the foot
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Strain

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  • Reaction of bone when a load is applied
  • Deformation of tissue
  • Bone can undergo 0.3% strain without deforming
  • Beyond 2% fracture will occur
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Mechanical forces on bone

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  • Compression
  • Tension
  • Shearing/Torsional
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Compression stress

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  • A force in matter that resists being pushed together
  • May be observed as Pressure
  • Body weight on the foot bones
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Pressure

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  • Pressure = F/area

- Measured in pascals

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Tension stress

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  • The force in matter that resists being pulled apart or stretched
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Tendo Achilles rupture

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  • “Watershed” area
  • ~3-6 cm superior to insertion
  • Reduction in both actual number and mean relative volume of vessels
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Shearing forces

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  • Sliding forces

- With walking during contact, forces against the foot parallel to the walking surface

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Torsional forces

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  • Rotational or twisting forces

- Ankle fracture from inversion ankle sprain

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Bending forces

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  • A combination of compression and tension forces
  • Greenstick fractures in pediatric patient
  • Butterfly fracture
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Compression strain (deformation)

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  • Shortening or “squashing”
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Tension strain (deformation)

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  • Elongation or “stretching”
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Shear strain (deformation)

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  • Displacement or delamination
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Tissues react in accordance with Newton’s Third Law

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  • When a force is exerted it causes an equal and opposite force on the substance acted upon
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Tissue reaction to stress is dependent upon

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  • Innate structural characteristics of bone that resist external loads
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Regarding joint stability in general

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  • The more mobile, the less stable

- The more stabile, the less mobile

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Predominant collagen of bone

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  • Type I collagen
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Factors affecting the stiffness needed for lever systems to work

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  • Nonhomogeneous
  • Anisotropic
  • Viscoelastic
  • Brittle
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Nonhomoceneity macroscopically

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  • Dense outer cortex carries the load

- Loosely arranges network of cancellous bone

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Loosely arranged network of cancellous bone

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  • Distributes the load evenly to the cortex
  • Decreases tension and shear to the cortex
  • Equalizes compression forces
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Cortical bone accounts for

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  • ~ 80% of all skeletal bone
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Role of cortical bone

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  • Provides strength

- Contributes primarily to the mechanical role of bone

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Cortical bone stress endurance

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  • Can sustain greater stress but less strain before failure
  • It is “stiffer”
  • Will fail is strain >2%
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Trabecular bone accounts for

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  • ~ 20% of skeletal bone
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Trabecular bone characteristics

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  • Greater capacity to store energy

- Can accept strains up to 75% before failure

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Trabecular bone is comprised of

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  • Highly irregular (anisotropic) trabeculae
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Trabecular bone in the foot

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  • The lesser tarsals

- Second cuneiform has the greatest mechanical advantage for resisting dorsal compression

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Commonalities of cortical and cancellous bone

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  • Similar molecular composition

- Both have extracellular matrix with mineralized and non-mineralized parts

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Both cortical and cancellous bone strength is determined by

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  • Calcium concentration (compressive strength)

- Collagenous proteins (tensile strength)

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Long bone function

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  • Serve as levers
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Short bone functions

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  • Small, cube shaped
  • Large articular surface
  • Good for shock absorption
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Flat bone function

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  • Provides protection
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Irregular bone function

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  • A variety of purposes

- Example: maxilla

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Sesamoid bone function

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  • Embedded in tendon

- Provide improved mechanical advantage

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Long bones are designed to

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  • Carry loads but remain light
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Long bones load

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  • Loaded predominantly in bending

- Periosteal radius provides structural rigidity

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Long bone structure

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  • Thin layer of cancellous bone on inner diaphyseal wall

- Femoral head is plate-like trabeculae

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Long bone characteristics

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  • Emphasize rigidity over flexibility
  • Longer than they are wide
  • Possess growth plate on either end
  • Hard, compact outer surface
  • Spongy cancellous marrow containing interior
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Long bone cartilage

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  • Hyaline cartilage

- Shock absorption and protection

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Broad ends of trabecular bone (long bones)

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  • Distribute force better
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Long bone joint surface

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  • Absorb stress load beneath joint surface

- Transmit that load into the cortex of long bone

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Flat bone characteristics

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  • Anterior and posterior surfaces are compact

- Provides strength

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Flat bone center

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  • Center consists of marrow-containing cancellous bone

- Red blood cell formation

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Irregular bone characteristics

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  • Possess “spring” action
  • Primarily cancellous bone
  • Thin layer of compact cortical bone
  • Vertebrae (rod-like trabeculae)
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Sesamoid bone characteristics

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  • Possess special angulations and curvatures

- They resist compression, tension and torsion

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Sesamoid bone shape is determined by

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  • Mechanical loading and modeling during growth
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Nonhomogeneity microscopically

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  • Lacunae of osteocytes

- Haversian canal system

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Haversian canal system

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  • Direction determines resistance to compression
  • More resistant in direction parallel to system
  • Less resistant in direction perpendicular to system
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Benefits of nonhomogeneity in the calcaneous

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  • Most dense cancellous bone
  • Neutral (silent) triangle
  • Dense cortical bone
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Cancellous bone of calcaneous is most dense

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  • Immediately inferior to the posterior facet

- Just proximal to the anterior calcaneal cuboid joint

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The neutral (silent) triangle

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  • Below the lateral talar process

- Sparse trabeculae and osteons

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Dense cortical bone of calcaneous

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  • Roof of the neutral triangle

- Provides strength during gait

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Anisotropy

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  • Having properties that differ according to the

direction of measurement

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Different resistance of stresses (anisotropy)

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  • Compressive stress: very resistant
  • Tension stress: moderately resistant
  • Shear stress: least resistant
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Torsional forces on bone

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  • One end is twisted clockwise
  • The other end is twisted counter-clockwise
  • This results in a spiral fracture
  • Fracture begins from the bone’s smallest diameter
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Different stresses of bending bone

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  • Unequal stresses
  • Tension forces: convex side
  • Compressive forces: concave side
  • Neutral Axis: point of no stress
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When a bone bends on the concave side

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  • Compression

- Decreases end to end distance

76
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When a bone bends on the conves side

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  • Tension

- Increases end to end distance

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Neutral axis

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  • No strain when bending bone

- The compressive forces equal the tension forces

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Bone is weaker when placed under tension

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  • It will fail on the tension side
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As tension forces increase with a bending force

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  • On tension side, crack appears
  • Neutral axis shifts
  • More bone on tension side
  • Crack propagates
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As tension forces increase with high energy trauma

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  • Many cracks are formed as energy accumulates quickly

- This bone will shatter

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As tension forces increase with low energy trauma

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  • Simple fractures without fragmentation
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Pilon fracture

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  • Talus is driven into the tibial plafond

- Impaction with comminution

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Pilon fracture mechanism

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  • Axial
  • Lower Energy: skiing
  • High Energy: MVA, fall from height
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The neutral axis of bone

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  • An imaginary plane inside the bone
  • Compressive forces = tension forces
  • The further mass is from this axis, the more difficult it is to break
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Stress (definition)

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  • Force applied to a material
  • Usually measured in Newtons
  • Application of stress (force) may result in deformation
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Deformation (strain) in different materials

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  • An elastic material: full recovery

- Viscoelastic material: creep

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Strain is measured as

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  • A % of the original dimension of the object
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Stress-strain curve

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  • The relationship of the amount of stress applied to the % of deformation
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When a force is applied,

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  • Initial strain is elastic
  • When stress is removed, the bone will return to its normal shape
  • This will be graphed as a straight line
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Young’s modulus of elasticity

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  • The slope of this line in the elastic region

- It is always linear

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Elastic region

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  • Area under the stress-strain curve
  • A measure of potential energy
  • Energy produced from deforming forces is not lost
  • Returned back into the system as kinetic energy when force is removed (conservation of energy)
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Plastic region

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  • Area under the stress-strain curve beyond the yield point
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Yield point

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  • Stress-strain curve begins to flatten
  • Decreased stress load is required to increase strain
  • Tissue deformation becomes permanent
  • Potential energy is dissipated (usually as heat)
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Failure or fracture point

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  • Material comes physically apart
  • Fracture will be easily visible
  • Remaining stored potential energy is released suddenly
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Consequences of failure or fracture

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  • Ruptured vessels
  • Marked inflammation
  • Pain
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Viscoelasticity of bone

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  • Elastic properties

- Viscous properties

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Viscous properties of bone

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  • Totally non-elastic stress-strain curve
  • Flows according to the density of the substance
  • Remains deformed after a force acts upon them
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Young’s modulus changes with the speed the force is applied

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  • Stress applied very quickly = increased Young’s modulus

- Slowly applied stress = decreased Young’s modulus

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Regardless of viscoelasticity

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  • Bone will still fracture at the same percent of strain
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Viscoelasticity with high speed sports

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  • Allows bones to withstand higher forces

- Increases Young’s modulus

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If the high speed force causes the bone to fracture

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  • More stored potential energy
  • Greater dissipation of energy into surrounding tissue
  • Greater soft tissue damage
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Creep

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  • A constant force applied in the elastic region
  • The longer this force is applied, the greater the strain retained by bone when the force is removed
  • Bone will gradually return to its former shape
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Creep is time dependent strain (deformation)

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  • Stress is constant
  • Strain accumulates as a result of long term stress
  • High levels of stress below the yield point
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General characteristics of creep

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  • Constant load (stress)
  • Gradual deformation over time
  • Complete recovery over time
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Stress relaxation

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  • Progressive decrease in load with time as the deformation of the structure remains constant
  • Strain is constant
  • The stress required to maintain this strain will decrease over time
106
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Deformation is maintained with decreasing stress (load) over time. With release of this stress,

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  • There is an immediate elastic response followed by a gradual return to its original shape
107
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Hysteresis

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  • Loss of energy in a loading/unloading cycle

- Reflects the dissipation of mechanical energy

108
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Hysteresis occurs due to

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  • Time delay in returning to its original shape
  • Purely elastic materials do not dissipate heat
  • Bone is not purely elastic
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Brittleness

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  • A measure of the length of the plastic portion of the stress-strain curve compared to the elastic portion
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Brittle (short plastic region)

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  • Can endure a limited amount of energy loss and deformation

- Bone is brittle

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Ductile (long plastic region)

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  • Capable of withstanding a greater amount of deformation

- Metals are ductile

112
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Brittleness in bone is determined by

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  • Ratio of hydroxyapetite to collagen
113
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Collagen is ductile

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  • High ratio of protein to mineral: less “brittle” bones (children)
  • Low ratio of protein to mineral: “brittle” bones (elderly)
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Highly mineralized bone

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  • Stiff and brittle
  • Area under the plastic phase of the curve is much less
  • Less energy required to cause fracture
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Relationship between bone stiffness and ultimate strain

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  • Inverse relationship

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