Biomimetic Application on Applied Bioengineering: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Bioengineering is a complex field where biology, chemistry, and mechanics converge, along with other disciplines. When addressing issues related to any of these fields, it would therefore be convenient to focus on bioengineering, its influence on the overall problem, and the interactions between various phenomena, thereby adding further complexity to this approach. For this reason, the problem at hand must first be partially studied before progressing to more global, interdisciplinary approaches.

This Special Issue focuses on the field of continuum and discrete mechanics, where materials, structures, and deformations extend beyond the traditional approaches for engineering structures and coexist with agents capable of interacting with them, altering the boundary conditions and the chemical environment. This study provides a broad framework for further exploration, from the topological optimization of bones to interstitial pressure in tumours and responses to different treatments. For this, several models and approaches need to be considered to reproduce cellular behaviour, material stiffening, or vessel growth. Agent-based and multi-physical models, together with discrete angiogenesis approaches, are necessary to enable further investigation of this topic. As such, they are welcome in this Special Issue.

Through the above, we aim to provide a general view of current trends and computational models in the bioengineering field.

Dr. Luis Saucedo-Mora
Dr. Laura Moreno-Corrales
Guest Editors

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