Figure 1:

(A) Prepared bone strips mounted on the fabricated four-point bending jigs (aluminum holders and tungsten carbide pins) mounted on an Instron 8511.20 machine. The experiments were displacement-controlled at 0.1 mm/s rates when the force was recorded. (B) Schematics stress-strain curve for calculating the mechanical properties such as Young’s modulus (E), yield stress (σ_Y), yield strain (ε_Y), ultimate stress (σ_U), ultimate strain (ε_U), and failure energy (W_f).