I am a veterinary orthopaedic surgeon with an interest in Biomechanics. I have been studying biomechanics for many years using medical and veterinary manuscripts. The more I read, the less I realised I understood. I found that the terminology used in the literature was conflicting, and the same concepts were described differently by various authors. 

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My first encounter with conflicting evidence was when I read about the concept of "strain and stress distribution over a large working length of a plate". Although I could intuitively understand the logic...