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Intrafibrillar plasticity through mineral/collagen sliding is the dominant mechanism for the extreme toughness of antler bone.

Abstract：

:The inelastic deformability of the mineralised matrix in bones is critical to their high toughness, but the nanoscale mechanisms are incompletely understood. Antler is a tough bone type, with a nanostructure composed of mineralised collagen fibrils ∼100nm diameter. We track the fibrillar deformation of antler tissue during cyclic loading using in situ synchrotron small-angle X-ray diffraction (SAXD), finding that residual strain remains in the fibrils after the load was removed. During repeated unloading/reloading cycles, the fibril strain shows minimal hysteresis when plotted as a function of tissue strain, indicating that permanent plastic strain accumulates inside the fibril. We model the tensile response of the mineralised collagen fibril by a two - level staggered model - including both elastic - and inelastic regimes - with debonding between mineral and collagen within fibrils triggering macroscopic inelasticity. In the model, the subsequent frictional sliding at intrafibrillar mineral/collagen interfaces accounts for subsequent inelastic deformation of the tissue in tension. The model is compared to experimental measurements of fibrillar and mineral platelet strain during tensile deformation, measured by in situ synchrotron SAXD and wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) respectively, as well as macroscopic tissue stress and strain. By fitting the model predictions to experimentally observed parameters like the yield point, elastic modulus and post-yield slope, extremely good agreement is found between the model and experimental data at both the macro- and at the nanoscale. Our results provide strong evidence that intrafibrillar sliding between mineral and collagen leads to permanent plastic strain at both the fibril and the tissue level, and that the energy thus dissipated is a significant factor behind the high toughness of antler bone.

journal_name

J Mech Behav Biomed Mater

journal_title

Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials

authors

Gupta HS,Krauss S,Kerschnitzki M,Karunaratne A,Dunlop JW,Barber AH,Boesecke P,Funari SS,Fratzl P

doi

10.1016/j.jmbbm.2013.03.020

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-12-01 00:00:00

pages

366-82

eissn

1751-6161

issn

1878-0180

pii

S1751-6161(13)00109-4

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Intrafibrillar plasticity through mineral/collagen sliding is the dominant mechanism for the extreme toughness of antler bone.