Multiscale Biomechanics provides new insights on multiscale static and dynamic behavior of both soft and hard biological tissues, including bone, the intervertebral disk, biological membranes and tendons. The different authors introduce the necessary physiological aspects of these living structures, before presenting micromechanical models to compute their overall mechanical response. A modern account of tensor analysis, […]
Multiscale Biomechanics provides new insights on multiscale static and dynamic behavior of both soft and hard biological tissues, including bone, the intervertebral disk, biological membranes and tendons.
The different authors introduce the necessary physiological aspects of these living structures, before presenting micromechanical models to compute their overall mechanical response.
A modern account of tensor analysis, continuum mechanics, the mechanics of growing solid bodies, generalized continuum models to capture internal lengths scales, and dedicated homogenization methods is given in a first part to provide the reader with the necessary theoretical foundations. The second part covers various aspects of multiscale bone mechanics, and in the final part the mechanical response of soft biological tissues is investigated.
This book is intended for graduate students and researchers in biomechanics interested in the latest research developments, as well as those who wish to gain insight into the field of biomechanics.