Skeletal trauma analysis often involves the assessment of the types and patterns of fractures, followed by categorizing the trauma into one of several broad “mechanisms.” Trauma analysis ideally also involves understanding ...

Fractography involves the study of fractures and cracks in a material in order to understand the cause of failure. Even as a complex, highly hierarchical composite, bone is a material that obeys physical laws, including ...

The present paper presents a scanning electron microscope (SEM) analysis of the genesis and microarchitecture of experimentally induced cortical entry fractures in porcine scapulae impacted at velocities ranging from 54 ...