Table 6.

Summary of mechanical properties of natural human bone.

Material	Young’s Modulus	Compressive Yield Strength	Ultimate Compressive Strength	Compression Fatigue Strength	Ref
Cancellous bone	0.02–6 GPa	7.2–23.2 MPa	17–33 MPa	72.6–124 MPa at 106 cycles	[8,82,84,89,91,93,162,165,168,169,170,171]
Cortical bone	3–30 GPa	92.4–167.7 MPa	100–290 MPa	137 MPa at 106 cycles