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Table 2 Experimentally measured elastic properties of the cortical and cancelous sections of synthetic femur compared against those reported by the manufacturer of the synthetic femur

From: Prospects of implant with locking plate in fixation of subtrochanteric fracture: experimental demonstration of its potential benefits on synthetic femur model with supportive hierarchical nonlinear hyperelastic finite element analysis

 

Tensile

Compressive

 

Strength (MPa)

Modulus (GPa)

Strength (MPa)

Modulus (GPa)

EMV

SRV

EMV

SRV

EMV

SRV

EMV

SRV

Cortical

98.6

106

14.43

16.0

146.33

157

14.62

16.7

Cancellous

1.3

-

0.24

-

4.82

5.40

0.125

0.137

  1. EMV denotes experimentally measured value. SRV denotes the value reported by the manufacturer (Sawbones, Pacific Research Laboratories, Inc., Vashon, WA, USA) of the synthetic femur.
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