Trabecular bone is a highly porous, heterogeneous, and anisotropic material which can be
found at the epiphyses of long bones and in the vertebral bodies. Studying the mechanical …

Recent development in three-dimensional (3-D) imaging of cancellous bone has made
possible true 3-D quantification of trabecular architecture. This provides a significant …

The first edition of Skeletal Tissue Mechanics, published in 1998, grew out of Bruce Martin's
lecture notes for a course by the same name, which was part of the biomedical engineering …

This second edition of the Bone Mechanics Handbook summarizes the current
understanding of bone mechanics with comprehensive coverage of the histology …

Exploring the basic mechanical principles of bone-related research and mechanical testing
of bone specimens, this book has 42 chapters divided into three major sections that cover …

The reader of this chapter may draw inspiration from the following quote from research
biologist Albert Harris (Harris, 1994):“Systems of interacting forces and stimuli don't have to …

We have reviewed highlights of the research in trabecular bone biomechanics performed
over the past 20 years. Results from numerous studies have shown that trabecular bone is …

It has been proposed that the orthotropic elastic constants of cancellous bone depend upon
a tensorial measure of anisotropy called fabric as well as the tissue's structural density …

The mechanical properties of bones are governed by the same principles as those of man-
made load-bearing structures, but the organism is able to adapt its bone structure to …

This book presents a broad exposition of analytical and numerical methods for modeling
composite materials, laminates, polycrystals and other heterogeneous solids, with emphasis …