Bone Remodeling Process
Mechanics, Biology, and Numerical Modeling

Draws an overall image about bone biology and cell interactions that is useful for identifying cell populations crucial for the remodeling process

Rabeb Ben Kahla (Author), Abdelwahed Barkaoui (Author)

9780323884679, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 20 August 2021

236 pages
23.5 x 19 x 1.6 cm, 0.52 kg

Bone Remodeling Process: Mechanics, Biology, and Numerical Modeling provides a literature review. The first part of the book discusses bones in a normal physiological condition, bringing together the involved actors and factors reported over the past two decades, and the second discusses pathological conditions, highlighting the attack vectors of each bone disease. The third part is devoted to the mathematical descriptions of bone remodeling, formulated to develop models able to provide information that is not amenable to direct measurement, while the last part focuses on models using the finite element method in investigating bone biomechanics.

This book creates an overall image of the complex communication network established between the diverse remodeling actors, based on overwhelming control evidence revealed over recent years, as well as visualizes the remodeling defects and possible treatments in each case. It also regroups the models allowing readers to analyze and assess bone mechanical and biological properties. This book details the cellular mechanisms allowing the bone to adapt its microarchitecture to the requirements of the human body, which is the main issue in bone biology and presents the evolution of mathematical modeling used in a bone computer simulation.

1. Bone multiscale mechanics
2. Bone remodeling biology
3. Bone diseases and associated therapeutic solutions
4. Bone remodeling mathematical models
5. Bone and bone remodeling finite element modeling
6. Bone remodeling: Analysis, discussion and perspectives

Subject Areas: Engineering: general [TBC]