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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2012 Sep 17;45(16):2829–2834. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.08.034

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for compressive properties of human cortical bone at various orientations under progressive loading.

E0 (GPa) σy (MPa) σu (MPa) εy (%)
Longitudinal 19.1±6.35 111±18.6 124±15.0 0.91±0.09
Circumferential 5.65±1.61 41.8±19.4 65.2±13.8 0.83±0.42
Radial 6.49±3.22 44.1±21.1 63.1±20.7 0.84±0.23
ANOVA p < 0.0001 p < 0.0001 p < 0.0001 p=0.83