Effect of aging on tensile mechanical properties of the rabbit distal femoral growth plate

Tensile tests to failure were performed on the distal femoral growth plate of rabbits. The measured tensile forces, together with animal weight and dimensional measurements of the femur, were used to develop a noninvasive method of predicting growth failure loads and to examine the effects of age on the tensile strength of the growth plate. Growth plate failure load correlated with rabbit weight, (r = 0.93), femoral length, (r = 0.91), and …