Parametric Analysis of Damage in Cancellous Bone and in Materials with Bone-like Microstructure

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  • Piotr Kowalczyk Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

A systematic approach to the macroscopic damage analysis of bone-like cellular materials is presented in which damage conditions are expressed as tabularized functions of microstructure geometry parameters. Based on three different strain-based microscopic damage criteria, a large number of cellular microstructures, characterized by different values of geometric parameters, are analysed by the finite element method to determine damage factor values for a number of macroscopic strain states. As a result, an exhaustive database is prepared in which macroscopic damage conditions for a variety of microstructures are presented as tabularized parametric functions of both geometric parameters and strain states. A numerical procedure of data interpolation is proposed as a tool to predict parameterized damage surfaces for any bone-like microstructure. The results are made publicly available in an open data repository to enable further research on their characterization and analytical approximation.

Keywords:

cancellous bone, damage properties, parametric studies, finite element (FE) analysis

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