title: Stability analysis and finite element simulation of bone remodeling model.
abstract: Bone remodeling is widely viewed as a dynamic process--maintaining bone structure through a balance between the opposed activities of osteoblast and osteoclast cells--in which the stability problem is often pointed out. By an analytical approach, we present a bone remodeling model applied to n unit-elements in order to analyze the stationary states and the condition of their stability. In addition, this theory has been simulated in a computer model using the Finite Element Method (FEM) to show a relationship between the bone remodeling process and the stability analysis.
authors.affiliation: Université Paris Val de Marne, Faculté des Sciences et Technologie, Laboratoire de Mécanique Physique/ESA CNRS 7052 61, av. du général De Gaulle, 94010 Créteil, France. zidi@univ-paris12.fr
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zidi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ramtani
mesh_terms: D016723:Bone Remodeling / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008954:Models, Biological; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D016474:Weight-Bearing / Q000502:physiology