New insights into high-resolution strain fields of trabecular bone using digital image correlation: 27th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, 26.-29.06.2022, Porto, Portugal

Trabecular bone structures consist of rods and plates [1].
The reduction in bone volume to total volume is a
thinning of this network and leads to a higher
slenderness ratio, which could cause the trabecula to fail
under buckling if it reaches a critical value [2, 3]. The aims
of this study were to (a) obtain high resolution full-field
strain fields of the trabecular network using DIC and (b)
investigate the correlation between the local strain
magnitudes on the trabecula level and its orientation.