Damage accumulation of bovine bone under variable amplitude loads.
basic_science · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 28580403.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.bonr.2016.11.001 and PMC identifier 5440782.
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Abstract
Stress fractures, a painful injury, are caused by excessive fatigue in bone. This study on damage accumulation in bone sought to determine if the Palmgren-Miner rule (PMR), a well-known linear damage accumulation hypothesis, is predictive of fatigue failure in bone. An electromagnetic shaker apparatus was constructed to conduct cyclic and variable amplitude tests on bovine bone specimens. Three distinct damage regimes were observed following fracture. Fractures due to a low cyclic amplitude loading appeared ductile ( 4000 μ<i>ϵ</i>), brittle due to high cyclic amplitude loading (> 9000 μ<i>ϵ</i>), and a combination of ductile and brittle from mid-range cyclic amplitude loading (6500 -6750 μ<i>ϵ</i>). Brittle and ductile fracture mechanisms were isolated and mixed, in a controlled way, into variable amplitude loading tests. PMR predictions of cycles to failure consistently over-predicted fatigue life when mixing isolated fracture mechanisms. However, PMR was not proven ineffective when used with a single damage mechanism.