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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Nanomed Nanobiotechnol. 2011 Jan-Feb;3(1):47–69. doi: 10.1002/wnan.105

Figure 15.

Figure 15

In the lamellar bone the energy required for crack to propagate along the lamellae (left side) is much lower than across the lamellae (right side). Reprinted with permission from 40.