Determining Young's Modulus of Elasticity of Cortical Bone from CT Scans

SGABU Computational Platform for Multiscale Modeling: Bridging the Gap between Education and Research

“…For the presented model herein, each body (trabecular and cortical bone) is assumed to behave as a homogeneous, isotropic, linear elastic material, and thus only two elastic constants are needed to fully describe their constitutive equations. For this model, the Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio were considered to describe the mechanical response of each body, whose default values have been adopted from the literature ( [26,27,28]). Users are able to change these values as long as the new values are within the allowable range indicated below of each input box.…”