Biological materials: Structure and mechanical properties

By M. A. Meyers, Po-Yu Chen, A. Lin, Yasuaki Seki. 2008

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Mineralized structures in nature: Examples and inspirations for the design of new composite materials and biomaterials (2010, background): “Weight-bearing trabecular systems can sustain superior-inferior compression levels of as much as 310MPa and those from non-weight-bearing regions typically fail at stresses of from 120MPa to 150MPa [18].”
Bioactive Glass and Glass-Ceramic Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering (2010, background): “Such HA nanocrystals are found in human bone and believed to be beneficial for increased cell adhesion, proliferation and greater tissue growth into the scaffold [84,133,134].”
A framework for data-driven analysis of materials under uncertainty: Countering the curse of dimensionality (2017, background): “Meyers et al. [1] examined the extraordinary diversity in biological materials that are often composed of weak constituents assembled in complex structures with radically different macroscopic mechanical properties.”