This presentation is a selection from the TMS 2007 Annual Meeting Short Course "Biology for Materials Scientists and Engineers." It discusses fracture and fatigue from a materials science perspective and then presents specifics with respect to bone and teeth. Visuals include SEM micrographs of crack propagation in biomaterials.

Citation: Ritchie, R.O., Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, "Fracture and Fatigue of Biological Materials: Bone and Teeth." TMS Tutorial on Biology for Materials Scientists and Engineers, February 25, 2007.