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On the anisotropic elastic properties of woods
In 2003 Nature Materials article, Keckes et al. presented deformation properties of a variety of woods in relation to deformation of their individual wood cells. Their point is “The remarkable mechanical prope...
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Nondestructive Characterization of Beryllium Effects on Ni-Cr Dental Alloy Elastic Properties and Microstructure: Ultrasonics, X-Ray Diffractometry, Scanning Electron Microscopy and Wavelength Dispersive Spectrometry
Knowledge of structure-properties relationship is a key factor in the development and improvement of new and existing metal alloys through manipulation in their chemical-compositions. In this study, the elasti...
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Two Ultrasonic Techniques to Evaluate Bone Remodeling About Femoral Prostheses
Ultrasonic techniques have been used extensively to measure the anisotropic elastic properties of calcified tissue [1–4]. Yoon and Katz [3] have derived the equations relating the elastic constants to the tech...
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Microstructure and Elastic Properties of Dental Resin and Resin-Based Glass-Reinforced Composites: XRD, SEM and Ultrasonic Methods
The load-bearing ability of dental restorative materials under cyclic high-stress applications depends upon mechanical properties established by the composition and microstructure. The microstructure and the e...
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The Elastic Properties of Osteoporotic and Osteopetrotic Bone
We have been involved in using several ultrasonic wave propagation techniques to study the relationship between the structure and the elastic properties of bone, both normal and pathological. Pulse through ult...
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Is bone a Cosserat solid?
In a viscoelastic composite material including bone, acoustic waves undergo both geometric and viscoelastic dispersions as they propagate through the medium. The viscoelastic dispersion is characterized by an ...
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Low-temperature heat capacity of bone