Modelling bone tissue fracture and healing: A review

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 71, Issue 13-14, 2004, Pages 1809-1840

  Doblare M ^a   Garcia J M ^a   Gomez M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Bone fracture; Computational simulation; Fracture healing

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL LABORATORIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NURSING; ORTHOPEDICS; TISSUE;

BONE FRACTURE ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEOUS MICROSTRUCTURE; MULTIPHASIC MICROSTRUCTURE;

BONE;

FRACTURE;

EID: 1842735092     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2003.08.003     Document Type: Review

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