Abstract: Significant evidence exists that trauma to a joint produced by a single impact load below that which causes subchondral bone fracture can result in permanent damage to the cartilage matrix, ...

Abstract: A constitutive model for articular cartilage is developed to study directional load sharing within the soft biological tissue. Cartilage is idealized as a composite structure whose static mechanical ...

Abstract: Structural properties of growing canine long bones were determined from three and four-point bending tests. Mechanical and geometric properties were found to follow a biphasic growth process, ...

Abstract: The age-related material properties of developing immature canine bone were determined for the femora, tibiae, humeri, radii, and ulnae in animals from 1 wk of age to maturity. These properties ...