IUTAM Symposium on Synthesis in Bio Solid Mechanics

Remodelling and Experiments.- Functional Adaptation in Bone.- Mechanical and Hormonal Mechanisms Influencing Skeletal Form.- Self-Organization of Topological Structures by a Cellular Automaton.- Micromechanics of Bones.- Architectural 3-D Parameters and Anisotropic Elastic Properties of Cancellous Bone.- Lattice Continuum Model for Bone Remodeling Considering Microstructural Optimality of Trabecular Architecture.- Loads and Implants.- Anchorage of Orthopaedic Prostheses.- Design of Materials Subject to Bio-Mechanical Compatibility Constraints.- Joint Load Identification During Cyclic Movements.- Basic Evolution Questions.- Why aren’t Skeletal Tissues Perfect?.- Dynamics of Joint Morphogenesis.- Optimal Modification and Evolution of Elastic Continuum Structures.- Creep and Experiments.- Effect of Time Dependence on the Mechanical Behavior of Compact Bone Tissue.- Anisotropic Residual Stress Measurements in Compact Bone Using Polychromatic X-Ray Diffraction.- A 3-D Finite Element Model of the Rat Tibialis Anterior Muscle.- Healing and Cracks.- Image Based Design and Manufacture of Scaffolds for Bone Reconstruction.- Fatigue Damage in Bone: Links to Adaptation.- Fracture Gap Movement as a Function of Musculo-Skeletal Loading Conditions During Gait.- Material and Microstructure.- Experimental Micromechanics and Viscoelasticity of Biological and Bioprotective Materials.- Global and Local Material Optimization Models Applied to Anisotropic Bone Adaptation.- On the Optimality of Bone Microstructure.- Mathematics of Remodelling.- An Existence Result in Bone Remodelling.- Structural Optimization and Biological “Designs”.- On Simple Model of Self-Adapting Bone Material.- Eye, Fiberorientation and Material Symmetry.- Computer Simulations of Refractive Surgery andAccommodation Mechanisms.- Optimization of Left Ventricular Muscle Fiber Orientation.- Optimization of Material Symmetry.- Remodelling as a Dynamic Process.- Surface Remodeling Simulation of Trabecular Bone Using Microstructural Finite Element Models.- Tissue Adaptation as a Discrete-Dynamical Process in Time and Space.- Time Simulation of Bone Adaptation.- Can the Mechanical Trabecular Bone Quality be Estimated Reliably from Mean Intercept Length or Other Morphological Parameters?.- Damage and Bone Evolution.- Nonlinear Stress-Strain Behavior Due to Damage Accumulation in Cortical Bone.- A Volumetric Finite Element Scheme to Investigate the Mechanical Properties of Normal and Osteoporotic Trabecular Bone.- Similarities in Bone Remodeling and Damage Evolution.- Bounds for Cell Wall Permeabilities.