Numerical simulation of mechanically stimulated bone remodelling

Numerical simulation of strain-adaptive bone remodelling in the ankle joint

BACKGROUND The use of artificial endoprostheses has become a routine procedure for knee and hip joints while ankle arthritis has traditionally been treated by means of arthrodesis. Due to its advantages, the implantation of endoprostheses is constantly increasing. While finite element analyses (FEA) of strain-adaptive bone remodelling have been carried out for the hip joint in previous studies,...

Computational simulation of bone remodelling post reverse total shoulder arthroplasty

Bone is a living material. It adapts, in an optimal sense, to loading by changing its density and trabeculae architecture a process termed remodelling. Implanted orthopaedic devices can significantly alter the loading on the surrounding bone, which can have a detrimental impact on bone ingrowth that is critical to ensure secure implant fixation. In this contribution, a computational model that ...

Three Dimensional Simulation of Adaptive Bone Remodelling in THR Femur

The adaptive bone remodeling phenomenon in the femur before and after prosthetic total hip joint replacement (THR) was investigated using the three dimensional finite element method. A normal hip joint model which composed of the proximal femur and the pelvic bone including femoral head and acetabular was constructed three-dimensionally by our method reported previously. The simulation model wa...

Bone Structure and Bone Remodelling

Bone Remodelling in BioShape

Many biological phenomena are inherently multiscale, i.e. they are characterised by interactions involving different scales at the same time. This is the case of bone remodelling, where macroscopic behaviour (at organ and tissue scale) and microstructure (at cell scale) strongly influence each other. Consequently, several approaches have been defined to model such a process at different spatial...