Multiscale cartilage biomechanics: Technical challenges in realizing a high-throughput modelling and simulation workflow

Interface Focus

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Erdemir, Ahmet ^a,b   Bennetts, Craig ^a,b   Davis, Sean ^a,b,c   Reddy, Akhil ^a,b,d   Sibole, Scott ^a,b,e  

^a Computational Biomodeling ^*  (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c University of Akron   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Chondrocyte; Extracellular; Finite element analysis; Pericellular; Post processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923166026     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2014.0081     Document Type: Article

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