Modeling the Mechanical Consequences of Age-Related Trabecular Bone Loss by XFEM Simulation

Figure 5

Comparison ofthe apparent stress-strain curves predicted by XFEM analysis for Model-rod A and Model-plate A and those obtained by compressive tests for the corresponding rod-like and plate-like RP models. The experimentally measured curves for the RP models with the same microarchitecture were averaged since no obvious differences in each curve of the same four RP models were observed.

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