Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 10 , Pages 1209-1226 , December 2008

Fracture of bone tissue: The ‘hows’ and the ‘whys’

  • H.S. Gupta

      Affiliations

    • Biomaterials Department, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14424 Potsdam, Germany
    • Current address: School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS.
    • ,
  • P. Zioupos

      Affiliations

    • Biomechanics Laboratories, Cranfield University, Shrivenham SN6 8LA, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 1793 785932; fax: +44 1793 763076.

Received 31 March 2008 ,Revised 1 September 2008 ,Accepted 2 September 2008.

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