Biomedical Technology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lenarz, Thomas (Editor), Wriggers, Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, 74
• Subjects: Engineering.; Health informatics.; Continuum mechanics.; Biomedical engineering.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Biomedical Engineering.; Health Informatics.

During the last years computational methods lead to new approaches that can be applied within medical practice. Based on the tremendous advances in medical imaging and high-performance computing, virtual testing is able to help in medical decision processes or implant designs. Current challenges in...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: RVE procedure for estimating the elastic properties of inhomogeneous microstructures such as bone tissue
• A gradient-enhanced continuum damage model for residually stressed fibre-reinforced materials at finite strains
• A mechanically stimulated fracture healing model using a finite element framework.