Table 1 Material properties of healing tissues, bone, screws, and plate used in the computational model.

From: A computational model that integrates unrestricted callus growth, mechanobiology, and angiogenesis can predict bone healing in rodents

Tissue material properties

Granulation tissue

Fibrous tissue

Cartilage

Immature bone

Mature bone

Cortical bone

Marrow

Stainless steel

Plate

Young’s modulus (MPa)

2

2

10

2000

10,000

15,750

2

200,000

3150

Permeability (mm/Ns)

0.01

0.01

0.005

0.1

0.37

0.00001

0.01

-

-

Poisson’s ratio

0.167

0.167

0.3

0.3

0.3

0.36

0.167

0.29

0.35

Porosity

0.8

0.8

0.8

0.8

0.8

0.04

0.8

-

-

Bulk modulus grain (MPa)

2300

2300

3700

13,940

13,940

13,920

2300

-

-

Bulk modulus fluid (MPa)

2300

2300

2300

2300

2300

2300

2300

-

-

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