Multiscale modelling and diffraction-based characterization of elastic behaviour of human dentine

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Human dentine is a hierarchical mineralized tissue with a two-level composite structure, with tubules being the prominent structural feature at a microlevel, and collagen fibres decorated with hydroxyapatite (HAp) crystallite platelets dominating the nanoscale. Few studies have focused on this two-level structure of human dentine, where the response to mechanical loading is thought to be affected not only by the tubule volume fraction at the microscale, but also by the shape and orientation d...

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Authors: Sui, T; Sandholzer, I; Baimpas, I; Dolbnya, I; Walmsley, A

• Journal: Acta Biomaterialia
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 7937-7947
• Publication date: 2013-08-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2013.04.020
• EISSN: 1878-7568
• ISSN: 1742-7061
• Language: English
• Keywords: Mechanical properties; WAXS/SAXS; Dentine; Eshelby model