Conference Agenda

STUDY OF CORTICAL BONE DENSITY DISTRIBUTION USING A DISCRETE BMU REMODELLING MODEL

N. M. Castoldi¹, R. Gilmour¹, V. Sansalone², D. Cooper³, P. Pivonka¹

¹School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; ²MSME, UMR 8208, Univ Paris Est Creteil, Univ Gustave Eiffel, CNRS, France; ³College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

THE IMPACT OF DIABETES ON FE-PREDICTED STRENGTH AT BASELINE AND FOLLOW-UP IN THE AGES-REYKJAVIK COHORT

A. D. Praveen¹, A. Baker², D. Jha^1,2, T. Aspelund^3,4, F. Johannesdottir⁵, S. Sigurðsson³, V. Guðnason³, S. J. Ferguson^1,2, L. M. Ellingsen⁴, P. A. Bjornsson⁴, H. Palsson⁴, D. Matchar⁶, H. Benedikt^1,2

¹Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore; ²ETH-Zürich, Switzerland; ³The Icelandic Heart Association, Iceland; ⁴University of Iceland, Iceland; ⁵Harvard University, United States; ⁶Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

HIERARCHICAL ELASTOPLASTICITY OF CORTICAL BONE: OBERVATIONS, MATHEMATICAL MODELING, VALIDATION

V. Kumbolder¹, C. Morin², S. Scheiner¹, C. Hellmich¹

¹TU Wien, Austria; ²Mines de Saint-Etienne, France

TETRAHEDRAL MICRO-FE MODELS OF HUMAN TRABECULAR BONE: A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT ALTERNATIVE TO VOXEL MODELS?

G. Fraterrigo^1,2, D. Santamaria^1,2, G. Iori³, M. Pani⁴, G. Crimi¹, F. Taddei¹, E. Schileo¹

¹IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Italy; ²Politecnico di Torino, Italy; ³Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, Jordan; ⁴University of Portsmouth, UK

EFFECT OF THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC MODELLING ON VERTEBRAL BONE STRAIN PREDICTION: A FINITE-ELEMENT STUDY

A. Aldieri¹, C. Garavelli², S. Mallia¹, M. Palanca², L. Crisotofolini², M. Viceconti^2,3

¹PolitoBIOMed Lab, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; ²Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy; ³Medical Technology Laboratory, Orthopaedic Rizzoli Institute, Bologna, Italy

SCREW PULL-OUT FORCE PREDICTION IN PORCINE RADII USING COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT NONLINEAR µFE MODELS

P. Stefanek¹, J. Silva-Henao², A. Reisinger², D. Pahr^1,2, A. Synek¹

¹Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics, TU Wien, Austria; ²Division Biomechanics, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Austria

THEORETICAL APPROACH TO MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES DRIVING MECHANICAL ADAPTATION OF INTERACTING MULTIPLE BONES

R. Suzuki, T. Adachi

Kyoto University, Japan