Article
Boundary element simulation of bone tissue
Autor
Duarte, Vannessa
González, Yomar
Cerrolaza, Miguel
Institución
Resumen
Usually the mechanical condition and the induced electric
signal are devoted to be part of the stimuli controlling the biophysical
activity associate with healing and remodelling phenomena. The tissue
differentiation theory proposed by Claes and Heigele (1999) has
been numerically implemented using an poroelastic boundary element
framework to characterises fracture healing, leading to a new poroelastic
correlation between mechanical conditions and local tissue formation.
This paper also presents the implementation of the piezoelectric boundary
integral equation to further study the bone tissue behaviour. The results
were in good agreement with those reported in previous works. Support by Académia de Ciencias Físicas, Matématicas y Naturales de Venezuela,
Fondo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (FONACIT) and Consejo de
Desarrollo Cientifíco y Humanistico (CDCH), UCV, is gratefully acknowledged.