Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 708-717 , July 2007

Haversian cortical bone model with many radial microcracks: An elastic analytic solution

  • A. Raeisi Najafi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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  • A.R. Arshi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +98 21 88883772.
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  • M.R. Eslami

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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  • S. Fariborz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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  • M. Moeinzadeh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Received 3 June 2005 ,Revised 23 July 2006 ,Accepted 1 August 2006.

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PII: S1350-4533(06)00157-3

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.08.001

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 708-717 , July 2007

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