Poroelasticity is a well-developed theory for the interaction of fluid and solid phases of a fluid-
saturated porous medium. It is widely used in geomechanics and has been applied to bone …

It is well established that damaged articular cartilage has a very limited potential for healing,
and articular defects larger than two to four millimeters in diameter rarely heal even with …

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

The mechanism of action of the Vacuum Assisted Closure Therapy (VAC; KCI, San Antonio,
Texas), a recent novel innovation in the care of wounds, remains unknown. In vitro studies …

The objective of this study was to determine the equilibrium confined compression modulus
of bovine articular cartilage as it varies with depth from the articular surface. Osteochondral …

The biosynthetic response of calf articular cartilage explants to dynamic compression was
examined over a wide range of amplitudes, waveforms, and frequencies …

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 …

The development of synthetic biomaterials that possess mechanical properties mimicking
those of native tissues remains an important challenge to the field of materials. In particular …

Part I (Mak et al., 1987, J. Biomechanics20, 703–714) presented the theoretical solutions for
the biphasic indentation of articular cartilage under creep and stress-relaxation conditions …

Articular cartilage was modeled rheologically as a biphasic poroviscoelastic material. A
specific integral-type linear viscoelastic model was used to describe the constitutive relation …