Fracture Properties of Bones under
Repeated Loading
Name: Xin Luo
Class: BE 210
It is hypothesized that chicken leg bones that have undergone a repeated loading process prior to the three point bending test will require less energy to fracture than their counterparts that were tested directly.
The central objective of this experiment is to determine the effect of repeated loading on the failure properties of chicken bones.
The secondary objective is to observe the effects of repetitive loading on wooden craft sticks, to determine whether wood is a valid surrogate material for bone under repeated loading conditions.