COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF LUMBAR VERTEBRAE
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 129 (DEC) , 753-758
Abstract
The compressive strength of 58 [human] lumbar vertebrae was measured. There is an enormous scatter across the population, varying from 0.8 kN to nearly 16 kN. The highest values obtained are higher than any reported previously.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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