Review Article
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 |
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