To enhance preventative and therapeutic strategies for metabolic bone diseases and bone fragility disorders, we began to explore the physical properties of bone tissue at the cellular level. Proximal femurs were harvested from 27 cadavera (16 male and 11 female) for in vitro measurement of the mechanical properties. We measured the variations in lamellar-level elastic modulus and hardness in hu...

Fractal patterns are observed in computational mechanics of elastic-plastic transitions in two models of linear elastic/perfectly plastic random heterogeneous materials: (1) a composite made of locally isotropic grains with weak random fluctuations in elastic moduli and/or yield limits and (2) a polycrystal made of randomly oriented anisotropic grains. In each case, the spatial assignment of ma...

[1] The single-crystal elastic properties of high-spin (Mg0.94Fe0.06)O ferropericlase were measured by Brillouin spectroscopy on a sample compressed to 20 GPa with diamond anvil cells using methanol-ethanol-water as a pressure-transmitting medium. At room pressure, the adiabatic bulk (K0S) and shear (m0S) moduli are K0S = 163 ± 3 GPa and m0S = 121 ± 2 GPa, in excellent agreement with ultrasonic...

Forced Chemical Vapor Infiltration (FCVI) method was used in fabricating the Nicalon TM!Silicon Carbide composites. Both through-thickness and In-plane (fiber fabric plane) moduli were determined using ultrasonic techniques. The through-thickness moduli were found to be much less than the inplane moduli. Both in-plane and through-thickness moduli were significantly decreased with an increased p...

Modelling the mechanical response of silica glass is still challenging, due to the lack of knowledge concerning the elastic properties of intermediate states of densification. An extensive Brillouin Light Scattering study on permanently densified silica glasses after cold compression in diamond anvil cell has been carried out, in order to deduce the elastic properties of such glasses and to pro...

Advances in our ability to assess fracture risk, predict implant success, and evaluate new therapies for bone metabolic and remodeling disorders depend on our understanding of anatomically specific measures of local tissue mechanical properties near and surrounding bone cells. Using nanoindentation, we have quantified elastic modulus and hardness of human lamellar bone tissue as a function of t...

Abstract The orthotropic and temperature-dependent nature of the mechanical properties wood is well recognized. However, past studies at elevated temperatures are either limited to below 200 °C or focus only on direction parallel grain. effect time-dependent pyrolysis during measurement often neglected. This paper presents a novel method for determining elastic modulus high thermal expansion co...

A low relative area change (RAC) of the proximal pulmonary artery (PA) over the cardiac cycle is a good predictor of mortality from right ventricular failure in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH). The relationship between RAC and local mechanical properties of arteries, which are known to stiffen in acute and chronic PH, is not clear, however. In this study, we estimated elastic moduli o...

Dynamic changes of elastic moduli in source volumes are predicted to produce "damagerelated-radiation" associated with products of the changes of elastic moduli and total elastic strain components in the source volume [Ben-Zion and Ampuero, 2009]. Decreasing elastic moduli (as produced by brittle deformation of low-porosity rocks and explosions) increase the radiation to the bulk, while increas...