Dynamic compressive behaviour of bovine trabecular bone was investigated. Compression tests on cylindrical specimens of bovine distal femurs were carried out using the split-Hopkinson pressurebar (SHPB) technique at strain rates ranging from 100 to 700 s
-1. Quasi-static compression tests were also performed using an Instron-type materials testing machine at strain rates of 2×10
-4 and 2×10
-3 s
-1. Stiffness and ultimate strength were greater at greater apparent density and at higher strain rate. Both stress relaxation and creep functions were determined based on stress-time and strain-time relations obtained by the SHPB tests. Relaxation time and retardation time had no correlation with apparent density. The three-element standard linear solid model was then validated by these functions. The elastic spring stiffness of the model, E
1, had a strong positive correlation with apparent density, while the elastic spring stiffness, E
2, and the viscosity coefficient, η, showed less correlation with apparent density. No significant differences in the relaxation and retardation times, the elastic spring stiffnesses, E
1, E
2, and the viscosity coefficient, η, were observed between the specimens with and without marrow.
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