The DOI matches its Crossref record; 82 of the 82 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Biomechanics of cellular solids
Abstract
Materials with a cellular structure are widespread in nature and include wood, cork, plant parenchyma and trabecular bone. Natural cellular materials are often mechanically efficient: the honeycomb-like microstructure of wood, for instance, gives it an exceptionally high performance index for resisting bending and buckling. Here we review the mechanics of a wide range of natural cellular materials and examine their role in lightweight natural sandwich structures (e.g. iris leaves) and natural tubular structures (e.g. plant stems or animal quills). We also describe two examples of engineered biomaterials with a cellular structure, designed to replace or regenerate tissue in the body.
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“Using this approach, investigators attributed the experimentally observed dependence of Young’s modulus and compressive strength on apparent density raised to the second power to bending-dominated linear elastic behavior and failure by buckling (127).”
From Bone Mechanical Properties in Healthy and Diseased States (2018) · cites this paper as [127]
Citations
Cites
Cellular solids structure and properties
Gibson, L. J., Ashby, M. F., et al. (1997) · Cited by 9,172
Self-citationFoam Structures with a Negative Poisson's Ratio
Lakes, R. S. (1987) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.235.4792.1038 · Cited by 3,917
Ashby, M., Evans, A. G., Fleck, N., Gibson, L. J., Hutchinson, J., Wadley, H. N. G., & Delale, F. (2001) · Applied Mechanics Reviews · doi:10.1115/1.1421119 · Cited by 2,695
Self-citationMaterials Selection in Mechanical Design
Ashby, M., & Cebon, D. (2011) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/c2009-0-25539-5 · Cited by 2,688
The compressive behavior of bone as a two-phase porous structure
Carter, D., & Hayes, W. (1977) · The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery · doi:10.2106/00004623-197759070-00021 · Cited by 2,001
The mechanics of three-dimensional cellular materials
Gibson, I. J., & Ashby, M. F. (1982) · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspa.1982.0088 · Cited by 1,895
Analysis and design of structural sandwich panels
Ogorkiewicz, R. M. (1970) · Composites · doi:10.1016/0010-4361(70)90244-2 · Cited by 1,762
Mechanics of Wood and Wood Composites
Bodig, J., & Jayne, B. A. (1982) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 1,473
The mechanics of two-dimensional cellular materials
Gibson, L. J., Ashby, M. F., Schajer, G. S., & Robertson, C. I. (1982) · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspa.1982.0087 · Cited by 1,280
Self-citationPreparation and characterization of poly(l-lactic acid) foams
Mikos, A. G., Thorsen, A. J., Czerwonka, L. A., Bao, Y., Langer, R., Winslow, D. N., & Vacanti, J. P. (1994) · Polymer · doi:10.1016/0032-3861(94)90953-9 · Cited by 1,196
Research works printed but not linked: 7
- Bensusan, J.S., Davy, D.T., Heiple, K.G., Verdin, P.J., 1983. 19th Annual Orthopaedic Research Society Meeting 8, pp. 132.
- Goodman, 1971, Orthotropic strength of wood in compression, Wood Science, 4, 83
- Goree, 1962, Elastic stability of circular cylindrical shells stabilized by a soft elastic core, Experimental Mechanics, 2, 142
- Guo, X.E., Kim, C.H., 1999. Effects of age-related bone loss: A 3D microstructural simulation. Proceedings of the 1999 Bioengineering Conference American Society of Mechanical Engineers Bioengineering Division, vol 42. pp. 327–328.
- Lhommeau, 1998, Preparation of highly interconnected porous tyrosine-derived polycarbonate scaffolds, Tissue Engineering, 4, 468
- Maddox, R.D., Carroll, J.W., Hollister, S.J., Mazumdar, J., Krebsbach, P.H., 2003. Gene/cell delivery from designed titanium scaffolds made by free-form fabrication. Society for Biomaterials 29th Annual Meeting Transactions. Reno, Nevada.
- Patel, 1970, Structural features and mechanical properties of rigid cellular plastics, Journal of Materials, 5, 909
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Nature’s hierarchical materials
Fratzl, P., & Weinkamer, R. (2007) · Progress in Materials Science · doi:10.1016/j.pmatsci.2007.06.001 · Cited by 2,788
Self-healing polymeric materials: A review of recent developments
Wu, D. Y., Meure, S., & Solomon, D. H. (2008) · Progress in Polymer Science · doi:10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2008.02.001 · Cited by 1,407
Bioactive Glass and Glass-Ceramic Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering
Gerhardt, L. ‐., & Boccaccini, A. R. (2010) · Materials · doi:10.3390/ma3073867 · Cited by 1,182
Bone Mechanical Properties in Healthy and Diseased States
Morgan, E. F., Unnikrisnan, G. U., & Hussein, A. I. (2018) · Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering · doi:10.1146/annurev-bioeng-062117-121139 · Cited by 1,026
“Using this approach, investigators attributed the experimentally observed dependence of Young’s modulus and compressive strength on apparent density raised to the second power to bendingdominated linear elastic behavior and failure by buckling (127).”
Liu, Z., Meyers, M. A., Zhang, Z., & Ritchie, R. O. (2017) · Progress in Materials Science · doi:10.1016/j.pmatsci.2017.04.013 · Cited by 899
Metadata
- Authors
- Gibson, L. J.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Gibson, Lorna J.
- ORCID
- Gibson, Lorna J.
- Venue
- Journal of Biomechanics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-03
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 377-399
- ISSN
- 0021-9290 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2003488635
- Cited by
- 961
- References
- 82
- Citations by year
- 2026: 42 · 2025: 45 · 2024: 46 · 2023: 49 · 2022: 59 · 2021: 66 · 2020: 62 · 2019: 51 · 2018: 57 · 2017: 64 · 2016: 50 · 2015: 40 · 2014: 50 · 2013: 50 · 2012: 39
- FWCI
- 8.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Biomechanics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Cellular and Composite Structures
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Topology Optimization in Engineering
- Keywords
- cellular materials, wood, cork, trabecular bone, honeycomb microstructure, mechanical efficiency, sandwich structures, tubular structures, plant stems, engineered biomaterials, tissue regeneration
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Biocompatible Materials, Biomechanical Phenomena, Bone and Bones, Humans, Models, Biological, Tissue Engineering
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
