Is the 0.2%-Strain-Offset Approach Appropriate for Calculating the Yield Stress of Cortical Bone?
- 21 January 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Annals of Biomedical Engineering
- Vol. 49 (7), 1747-1760
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-020-02719-2
Abstract
The 0.2% strain offset approach is mostly used to calculate the yield stress and serves as an efficient method for cross-lab comparisons of measured material properties. However, it is difficult to accurately determine the yield of the bone. Especially when computational models require accurate material parameters, clarification of the yield point is needed. We tested 24 cortical specimens harvested from six bovine femora in three-point bending mode, and 11 bovine femoral cortical specimens in the tensile mode. The Young’s modulus and yield stress for each specimen derived from the specimen-specific finite element (FE) optimization method was regarded as the most ideal constitutive parameter. Then, the strain offset optimization method was used to find the strain offset closest to the ideal yield stress for the 24 specimens. The results showed that the 0 strain offsets underestimated (− 25%) the yield stress in bending and tensile tests, while the 0.2% strain offsets overestimated the yield stress (+ 65%) in three-point bending tests. Instead, the yield stress determined by 0.007 and 0.05% strain offset for bending and tensile loading respectively, can effectively characterize the biomechanical responses of the bone, thereby helping to build an accurate FE model.Keywords
Funding Information
- Innovative Research Group Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51621004)
- Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (2019JJ40034)
- Canada Research Chairs
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