University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Bioengineering

Fragility Assessment of Bovine Cortical Bone Using Scratch Tests

Kavya Mendu¹, Amrita Kataruka¹, Jasmine Puthuvelil¹, Ange-Therese Akono^1,2

¹Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, ²Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

This study assesses the fracture toughness of bovine cortical bone at the sub-meso levels using microscopic scratch tests. This is an original, objective, rigorous, and reproducible method proposed to probe fracture toughness below the macroscopic scale. Potential applications are studying changes in bone fragility due to diseases like osteoporosis.