Histerese de fêmures de ratas submetidos a ensaio de flexão, em diferentes faixas etárias. / Hysteresis of fêmur of rat submitted in bending test, in different age groups.

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2001

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Ageing affects many features of the locomotor system, including its mechanical properties. Bone is a viscoelastic material what means that it displays the phenomenon of hysteresis when submitted to loading-unloading cycles. In the present research we studied the behavior of the ultimate stress and the energy of hysteresis of femurs of rats in different ages, when tested in bending. Ninety femurs collected from female Wistar rats were used. There were three groups classified according to the animal age: 25 days (A), 65 days (B) and 365 days (C). The groups were divided into 3 subgroups (10 animals each). All the femurs were submitted to a three-point bending test. For each paired bones, the left femur was loaded until failure and the right femur was load to 40% (subgroup I), 60% (subgroup II) and 80% (subgroup II) of the yield load in relation to the opposite side femur and, then, unloaded. Comparing the groups B and C, the energies of loading and unloading increased with age and loading level, but, the energy of hysteresis increased only with loading level. The comparison among the three groups showed that the ultimate stress increased with age (p 0.001) and, the relative energy loss was equal for the subgroups belonging to the same group, A (p=0.136), B (p=0.583) and C (p=0.177), but different when the different groups were compared (p<0.001). It was concluded that ageing affects both the ultimate stress and the viscoelastic behavior of rat femurs, but further studies are necessary to deepen the knowledge in such matter.

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ageing histerese ultimate stress idade tensão máxima fêmur rat rata hysteresis

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