Design, Materials, and Mechanobiology of Biodegradable Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering

Table 1

Mechanical properties of bone. From Bandyopadyay-Ghosh [39] and Knudson [40].

Property	Cortical bone	Cancellous bone
Tensile strength (MPa)	50–150	10–100
Compressive strength (MPa)	130–230	2–12
Young’s modulus (GPa)	7–30	0.02–0.5
Strain to failure (%)	1–3	5–7
Shear strength (MPa)	53–70
Shear modulus (GPa)	3