A Review of Pediatric Lower Extremity Data for Pedestrian Numerical Modeling: Injury Epidemiology, Anatomy, Anthropometry, Structural, and Mechanical Properties
Table 6
Tensile mechanical properties of the femur/tibia [55].
Specimen region and number of samples
Young’s modulus (GPa)
Yield strain (%)
Failure strain (%)
Yield stress (MPa)
Failure stress (MPa)
Strain rate (%/s)
Femur lateral
5
15.98 ± 0.94
0.88 ± 0.08
1.68 ± 0.23
139.64 ± 8.41
161.66 ± 7.54
0.06 ± 0.001
Femur medial
4
14.53 ± 2.65
0.90 ± 0.16
2.20 ± 0.96
128.33 ± 3.01
147.05 ± 10.80
0.08 ± 0.01
Tibia lateral
2
17.50 ± 0.28
0.91
1.40 ± 1.00
178.2
148.4 ± 38.89
0.05 ± 0.02
Tibia medial
2
15.75 ± 0.49
0.97 ± 0.03
1.48 ± 0.35
153.40 ± 0.99
164.85 ± 0.21
0.04 ± 0.002
Tibia posterior
2
14.35 ± 0.35
0.89 ± 0.06
1.33 ± 0.29
127.15 ± 4.88
144.30 ± 1.84
0.06 ± 0.004
Data collected from tests performed on a 15-year-old PMHS samples.
