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Properties of Stressed Bone

Nature volume 190, page 1217 (1961)Cite this article

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PROF. DREYER'S communication1 raises a matter of considerable interest and importance. Engineers know that all materials react similarly on broad principles. That is, they obey Hooke's law, within wide ranges, of course, and conform to other physical changes under stress such as Poisson's ratio.

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  1. Nature, 189, 594 (1961).

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  1. British Transport Commission, British Railways Division, 222 Marylebone Road, London, N.W.1

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PEARSON, H. Properties of Stressed Bone. Nature 190, 1217 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1901217a0

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