Observations of convergence and uniqueness of node-based bone remodeling simulations

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 261-268

  Fischer, Kenneth J ^a   Jacobs, Chris R ^b   Levenston, Marc E ^c   Carter, Dennis R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Bone load estimation; Computational algorithm; Density distribution; Finite element model; Initial conditions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BONE DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; NODE BASED BONE ADAPTATION ALGORITHM;

BONE;

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE REMODELING; LONG BONE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; BONE DENSITY; BONE REMODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0031105548     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02648040     Document Type: Article

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