Forensic Fractography of Bone

Fractography involves the study of fractures and cracks in a material order to understand cause failure. Even as complex, highly hierarchical composite, bone is that obeys physical laws, including cracking behavior. The fields fractography fracture mechanics, therefore, have much offer our understanding bone’s response loading force. Here we discuss how can be used assessment originating from impacts those projectiles. Fractures patterns frequently associated with impact trauma—including radial fractures, circumferential beveling—are described interpretively forensic analyses; however, mechanisms for their production arrangement are often underutilized fully trauma event. These reviewed here perspective. Furthermore, review presented new data indicating beveling impacts, especially projectiles, produced by cone cracking, process also well documented other brittle materials. This information enhance general, context specific cases. Moreover, describing interpreting skeletal within mechanics has advantage aligning nomenclature anthropology scientific fields, particularly involved To facilitate this alignment, provide discussion definitions various fractography-related terms.