TY - JOUR
AU - Felts, William J. L.
AB - Analysis of age changes in physical characteristics of mouse limb bones requires a sensitive, consistent and relatively simple apparatus for determination of transverse breaking strength. The developed instrument is essentially a one meter counter‐balanced 4‐to‐1 lever with a tracked, motor‐driven weight on its upper surface. At the beam's short end a loading tool impinges upward on a bone mounted in an adjacent holder; at the opposite end is a mercury switch connected to a relay halting the weight motor when fracture occurs. Bones, with proximal ends embedded in convex securing blocks of impression medium, may be positioned in a standard relationship to the holder, loading tool edge, and the balanced beam.
TI - An apparatus for determination of breaking‐strength of small rodent bones
JF - The Anatomical Record : Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology
DO - 10.1002/ar.1091480107
DA - 1964-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/an-apparatus-for-determination-of-breaking-strength-of-small-rodent-vfHmiRobEM
SP - 75
EP - 79
VL - 148
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -