title: On a new law of bone remodeling based on damage elasticity: a thermodynamic approach.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Bone tissue is the main element of the human skeleton and is a dynamic tissue that is continuously renewed by bone-resorbing osteoclasts and bone-forming osteoblasts.The bone is also capable of repairing itself and adapting its structure to changes in its load environment through the process of bone remodeling.Therefore, this phenomenon has been gaining increasing interest in the last years and many laws have been developed in order to simulate this process.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In this paper, we develop a new law of bone remodeling in the context of damaged elastic by applying the thermodynamic approach in the case of small perturbations.The model is solved numerically by a finite difference method in the one-dimensional bone structure of a n-unit elements model.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In addition, several numerical simulations are presented that confirm the accuracy and effectiveness of the model.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (LAMAI), Faculty of Sciences and Technics, Abdelkrim El Khattabi Avenue, Marrakech, Morocco. a.idhammad@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Idhammad
authors.forename: Abdelmounaïm
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abdali
mesh_terms: D016723:Bone Remodeling / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004548:Elasticity; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D013816:Thermodynamics