The Study of Cross Sectional Area’s
Effect on Bone Ultimate Fracture Force through Image Analysis
Name: Randall Toy
Class: BE 210
It is hypothesized that as the cross-sectional area of compact bone increases,
the downward force required to fracture the bone will also increase.
This experiment strives to improve the accuracy of measurements previously made in the Bending: Bone Fracture experiment. Cross-sectional area quantification through MATLAB will replace the calculation of cross-sectional area through the hands-on measurement of bone dimensions. This method will eliminate the need to approximate the shapes of bone cross-sections and reduce the propagation of error caused by the use of a formula with two uncertain variables (bone diameter and compact bone thickness).