In-Silico Methods in Musculoskeletal Biomechanics and Biotribology
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2020) | Viewed by 25315
Special Issue Editor
Interests: (bio) tribology; tribo-corrosion; biomechanics; biocomposites; biomaterials; green lubricants; dynamical systems; multibody; acoustic noise; mechanical vibrations
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Nowadays, in silico approaches in biomechanics constitute an exciting research area devoted to the possibility of using computer simulations in the description of the mechanical behavior of biological systems with particular reference to their movement, structure, and biotribological interactions. In this research field, studies are often approached using expensive and time-consuming in vivo, ex vivo, and in vitro experimental investigations with the aim to obtain useful information in human prosthesis/orthosis design but also in prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring. To date, the possibility of describing the mechanics of the living organism in the language of mathematics, generating sophisticated and useful computer algorithms, has attracted the attention of researchers and encouraged them to develop more and more accurate simulation models, both for understanding the “real” behavior of the investigated biosystems and also for the optimal design of increasingly high-performing devices. Obviously, the accurate modeling of musculoskeletal biomechanics accounting for biotribological issues requires deep knowledge and structured scientific cooperation in multidisciplinary areas, such as musculoskeletal multibody non-linear modeling, muscles and tissues modeling, contact mechanics, synovial lubrication modeling, tribo-corrosion etc.
This Special Issue aims to collect the latest advances in musculoskeletal biomechanical and biotribological modeling in order to allow the scientific community to move toward computer modeling and then in silico investigations. Original theoretical, numerical, and experimental research papers, as well as reviews, dealing with the latest developments on this topic are welcome from both academic researchers and their industrial peers.
This Special Issue will cover principally the following topics:
- Biomechanics of the musculoskeletal;
- Mechanics of hard and soft tissues;
- Dynamic modeling of human motion;
- Biotribology of natural and artificial human synovial joints;
- Mechanics of bones and joints;
- Tribological behavior of biomaterials;
- Modeling of biomechanical data uncertainty.
Prof. Alessandro Ruggiero
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- in-silico methods
- biomechanics
- musculoskeletal models
- (bio)tribology
- arthroplasty human synovial joints
- bones
- biomaterials.
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