8. You are a research engineer investigating the forced required to fracture the clavicle
(shoulder) bone before and after fixation. Since most fractures occur at the middle section of the
clavicle, you have isolated this portion of the bone and are performing a tensile test on it to
determine its strength. Given the geometry in Fig 1, predict the applied tensile load F at which
the bone will fracture.
Note: the ultimate tensile strength of cortical bone is approximately 180 MPa.
• You have fixated the fractured clavicle using a plate, and wish to load this
construct to failure (Fig 2). Assume that the plate will remain rigidly attached to
the bone and that the plate will fail first. The critical area of the plate is at the
location of fracture (section A-A), where the plate withstands all the load (i.e., no
load shared with the bone). Draw a FBD of the plate-bone construct at section
A-A.
• Predict the applied load F when the plate fail. Note: the load is being applied
through the centroid of the bone, not the plate.
• During the testing the plate fails, but at region B-B. Comment on why this might
have occurre