We are making a 3D mechanical model of the thorax and we need the properties of the materials therein. The density of bone is about twice that of water, and I found unreliable affirmations that cartilage is less dense than bone. Does anyone have more reliable information? We are interested in costal cartilage, but would be satisfied with any old type of cartilage for initial, order-of-magnitude simulations.
We recently measured the density of the cartilage that makes up the skull of the sunfish Mola mola. The answer was close to 1.01 g/ml.
Dear Konstantin,
Thank you so much for the answer. Could you please provide a reference for 1.1 g/cm^3 value?
Thank you. I found a reference for it!!!
Emely Bortel,Max Langer,Alexander Rack,Jean Baptiste Forien,Georg Duda, etal.
.Combining Coherent Hard X RayTomographies with Phase Retrieval to GenerateThree-Dimensional Models of Forming Bone. Frontiers in Materials, 2017,4(1),pp.36-47.10.3389/fmats.2017. 00039hal-01886993
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