Table 1.

Mechanical properties of compact bone that can be defined and extracted from the stress–strain curve.

	Name of the Mechanical Property Parameter	Unit
1	Range of the elastic region (in strain)	Dimensionless
2	Range of the plastic region (in strain)	Dimensionless
3	Proportional limit (in stress)	Pa
4	Elastic limit (in stress)	Pa
5	Failure strength (in stress)	Pa
6	Brittleness coefficient	Dimensionless
7	Modulus of resilience	J/m3
8	Modulus of toughness	J/m3
9	Modulus of elasticity	Pa
10	Tangent modulus	Pa
11	Strain hardening parameter	Pa