Linear viscoelasticity - bone volume fraction relationships of bovine trabecular bone |
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Authors: | Krishnagoud Manda Shuqiao Xie Robert J Wallace Francesc Levrero-Florencio Pankaj Pankaj |
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Institution: | 1.School of Engineering,The University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK;2.Department of Orthopaedics,The University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,UK |
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Abstract: | Trabecular bone has been previously recognized as time-dependent (viscoelastic) material, but the relationships of its viscoelastic behaviour with bone volume fraction (BV/TV) have not been investigated so far. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to quantify the time-dependent viscoelastic behaviour of trabecular bone and relate it to BV/TV. Uniaxial compressive creep experiments were performed on cylindrical bovine trabecular bone samples (\(\textit{n}\,{=}\,13\)) at loads corresponding to physiological strain level of 2000 \({\upmu }{\upvarepsilon }\). We assumed that the bone behaves in a linear viscoelastic manner at this low strain level and the corresponding linear viscoelastic parameters were estimated by fitting a generalized Kelvin–Voigt rheological model to the experimental creep strain response. Strong and significant power law relationships (\(r^2\,{=}\,0.73,\ p\,{<}\,0.001\)) were found between time-dependent creep compliance function and BV/TV of the bone. These BV/TV-based material properties can be used in finite element models involving trabecular bone to predict time-dependent response. For users’ convenience, the creep compliance functions were also converted to relaxation functions by using numerical interconversion methods and similar power law relationships were reported between time-dependent relaxation modulus function and BV/TV. |
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