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Author_John D. Currey
Bone
Bone cell
Bone fracture
Bone remodeling
Bone tissue
Brittleness
Buckling
Calcification
Calculation
Cancellous bone
Cartilage
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Collagen
Compressive strength
Compressive stress
Deformation (engineering)
Dentin
Dislocation
Ductility
Elastic modulus
Endosteum
Epiphyseal plate
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Factor of safety
Fatigue (material)
Femur
Fibril
Fluctuating asymmetry
Fracture
Fracture mechanics
Fracture toughness
Hinge joint
Humerus
Ligament
Long bone
Mammal
Meniscus (anatomy)
Mineralization (biology)
Osteoarthritis
Osteoclast
Osteocyte
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Osteon
Pachyostosis
Patella
Poisson's ratio
Porosity
R/T
RT
Sesamoid bone
Shattering (agriculture)
Shear modulus
Soft diet
Stiffness
Strain energy
Strain rate
Stress concentration
Stress fracture
Stress relaxation
Surface energy
Tendon
Tibia
Toughness
Ulna
Ultimate tensile strength
Vertebra
Vertebrate
Vitamin D deficiency
Volume fraction
Wolff's law
Yield (engineering)
Young's modulus
Product details
- ISBN 9780691128047
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jul 2006
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is a comprehensive and accessible overview of what is known about the structure and mechanics of bone, bones, and teeth. In it, John Currey incorporates critical new concepts and findings from the two decades of research since the publication of his highly regarded The Mechanical Adaptations of Bones. Crucially, Currey shows how bone structure and bone's mechanical properties are intimately bound up with each other and how the mechanical properties of the material interact with the structure of whole bones to produce an adapted structure. For bone tissue, the book discusses stiffness, strength, viscoelasticity, fatigue, and fracture mechanics properties. For whole bones, subjects dealt with include buckling, the optimum hollowness of long bones, impact fracture, and properties of cancellous bone. The effects of mineralization on stiffness and toughness and the role of microcracking in the fracture process receive particular attention. As a zoologist, Currey views bone and bones as solutions to the design problems that vertebrates have faced during their evolution and throughout the book considers what bones have been adapted to do.
He covers the full range of bones and bony tissues, as well as dentin and enamel, and uses both human and non-human examples. Copiously illustrated, engagingly written, and assuming little in the way of prior knowledge or mathematical background, Bones is both an ideal introduction to the field and also a reference sure to be frequently consulted by practicing researchers.
John D. Currey is Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of York. He is the author of "Animal Skeletons and The Mechanical Adaptations of Bones" (Princeton) and a coauthor of "Mechanical Design in Organisms" (Princeton).
