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Kurt J. Koester

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Active since

2003

Affiliations

University of California, Berkeley(Current)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

University of Minnesota

Kurt J. Koester is an author at University of California, Berkeley specializing in fracture toughness, bone metabolism, and bone biomechanics.

Publications per year

2003–2011

8

Publications

8

The true toughness of human cortical bone measured with realistically short cracks

Kurt J. Koester, Joel W. Ager, Robert O. Ritchie · Nature Materials · 2008 · 559 citations

Natural Sciences, Anatomy, Mechanobiology +13

Microindentation for in vivo measurement of bone tissue mechanical properties in humans

Adolfo Díez‐Pérez, Xavier Nogués, E. Cáceres et al. · Journal of Bone and Mineral Research · 2010 · 268 citations · Full text

Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery +17

Indentation techniques for evaluating the fracture toughness of biomaterials and hard tissues

Jamie J. Kruzic, Do Kyung Kim, Kurt J. Koester et al. · Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials · 2008 · 240 citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +16

The effect of aging on crack-growth resistance and toughening mechanisms in human dentin

Kurt J. Koester, Joel W. Ager, Robert O. Ritchie · Biomaterials · 2008 · 134 citations

Dentistry, Dental Biomaterials Science, Dental Materials Science +11

Effect of aging on the transverse toughness of human cortical bone: Evaluation by R-curves

Kurt J. Koester, Holly D. Barth, Robert O. Ritchie · Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials · 2011 · 88 citations

Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Aging +13

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