Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Bone
From Model to Patient
- 1st Edition - February 1, 2026
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Luis Cardoso, Jean-Francois Ganghoffer, Mitchell B. Schaffler
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 7 3 9 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 7 4 0 - 6
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Bone: From Model to Patient provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the modelling and assessment of bone biomechanics. It addres… Read more
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Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Bone: From Model to Patient provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the modelling and assessment of bone biomechanics. It addresses topics such as biosubstitutes and bone implants from the point of view of design, properties, computational modeling, and choice of biomaterials. It concentrates on the biomechanics and mechanobiology modeling approaches of bone, including biological models, multiphysical approaches, surface and volumetric growth models, and bone fluid flow models. This is augmented by case studies and examples of models for computer-aided diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of bone diseases. Readers are introduced to bone physiology, adaptation, and disease, including cellular aspects at the root of bone mechanotransduction and leading to bone growth and remodeling, and management of diseases. Chapters also cover the mechanical, multiphysical multiscale properties of bone and constitutive laws including bone viscoelasticity, poroelasticity, bone damage, fatigue and fracture, as well as measurement techniques of bone properties.
- Offers a comprehensive reference for a multidisciplinary audience of researchers, engineers, computer scientists, and clinicians, focusing on the imaging and modeling of bone biomechanics
- Presents all the components necessary to build realistic models for patient-centered assessments of bone fractures, damage and fatigue, biosubstitutes, and implants, as well as for broader clinical research
- Explores computer-aided diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of bone diseases and conditions
Graduate students, researchers, engineers, and computer scientists working in the fields of biomedical and biomechanical engineering, as well as bone biologists, endocrinologists, orthopedists, and orthopedic surgeons doing research in bone modeling
PART 1: Bone Physiology, Adaptation and Disease
1. Anatomy and Physiology of Bone
2. Collagen & Bone Mineralization
3. Bone Cells, roles and functions
4. Mechanosensing and Mechanotransduction /Experiments on Cells Mechanosensation and Mechanotransduction
5. Growth, Development and Bone Adaptation
6. Bone Quantity and Quality
7. Bone Diseases and mechanical competence
8. Treatment and Management of Bone Diseases
PART 2: Mechanical, Multiphysical Properties of Bone and Constitutive Laws
9. Poromechanics of Bone
10. Mechanics of Bone Through the Length Scales
11. Experimental Bone Mechanics (Mechanical Tests - Bioreactors) / Elastic Properties of Cortical and Cancellous Bone Tissue
12. Fabric Tensor – Constitutive Models of Bone Tissue / Assessment of Cancellous Bone Architecture
13. Viscoelastic Properties of Cortical and Cancellous Bone
14. Bone Damage and Fatigue
15. Bone Strength
16. Bone Fracture Toughness
17. Energy Absorption of bone
PART 3: Biosubstitutes and Bone Implants
18. Biomaterials in Bone Bioengineering
19. Biomaterials for Graft Procedures: Overview and Perspectives
20. Bone Biosubstitutes and Implants: Design, Properties and Production
21. Numerical Simulations of Bone Implants Behavior
22. Case Studies of Bone Replacement Scaffolds
PART 4: Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Modeling
23. Bone Adaptation Models: from Wolff’s law to Modern Views
24. Volumetric and Surface Growth Models
25. Shape and topology Optimization approaches
26. Bone Fluid Flow Models
27. Biological Models of Mechanosensing and Mechanotransduction
28. Multiphysical Aspects of Bone Remodeling and mechanostransduction – Modeling approaches
29. Numerical Simulations of Bone Adaptation Throughout the Scales
30. Frontiers of Bone Biomechanics: Overview of Challenges
1. Anatomy and Physiology of Bone
2. Collagen & Bone Mineralization
3. Bone Cells, roles and functions
4. Mechanosensing and Mechanotransduction /Experiments on Cells Mechanosensation and Mechanotransduction
5. Growth, Development and Bone Adaptation
6. Bone Quantity and Quality
7. Bone Diseases and mechanical competence
8. Treatment and Management of Bone Diseases
PART 2: Mechanical, Multiphysical Properties of Bone and Constitutive Laws
9. Poromechanics of Bone
10. Mechanics of Bone Through the Length Scales
11. Experimental Bone Mechanics (Mechanical Tests - Bioreactors) / Elastic Properties of Cortical and Cancellous Bone Tissue
12. Fabric Tensor – Constitutive Models of Bone Tissue / Assessment of Cancellous Bone Architecture
13. Viscoelastic Properties of Cortical and Cancellous Bone
14. Bone Damage and Fatigue
15. Bone Strength
16. Bone Fracture Toughness
17. Energy Absorption of bone
PART 3: Biosubstitutes and Bone Implants
18. Biomaterials in Bone Bioengineering
19. Biomaterials for Graft Procedures: Overview and Perspectives
20. Bone Biosubstitutes and Implants: Design, Properties and Production
21. Numerical Simulations of Bone Implants Behavior
22. Case Studies of Bone Replacement Scaffolds
PART 4: Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Modeling
23. Bone Adaptation Models: from Wolff’s law to Modern Views
24. Volumetric and Surface Growth Models
25. Shape and topology Optimization approaches
26. Bone Fluid Flow Models
27. Biological Models of Mechanosensing and Mechanotransduction
28. Multiphysical Aspects of Bone Remodeling and mechanostransduction – Modeling approaches
29. Numerical Simulations of Bone Adaptation Throughout the Scales
30. Frontiers of Bone Biomechanics: Overview of Challenges
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 1, 2026
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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Luis Cardoso
Luis Cardoso is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the City College of New York (CCNY). He is a former postdoctoral fellow of the Bone Loss team at the NASA – National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) and currently director of the multiscale and functional imaging laboratory at CCNY. A major interest of Dr. Cardoso's research focuses on biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system using experimental, analytical and numerical approaches to investigate the structure function relationship of calcified tissues. Dr. Cardoso's laboratory has particular interest on ultrasound wave propagation in porous media, imaging of bone microarchitecture, and the characterization of bone mechanical competence using the Fabric Tensor. Dr. Cardoso is the author of 80 peer reviewed papers in international journals, more than 130 peer reviewed abstracts, and 4 book chapters. He has been an invited lecturer at several international venues, including the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Biomedical Engineering Symposium. He has received several distinctions, including the New Investigator Recognition Award by the Orthopaedic Research Society in USA, and was elected as Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York, USAJG
Jean-Francois Ganghoffer
Jean-François Ganghoffer was a CNRS fellow from 1992 to 2000, before being hired as full Professor of mechanics in Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France), where he is currently active. He is the head of the biomechanics team of LEM3, the Laboratoire d’Etude des Microstructures et de Mécanique des Matériaux. He is the leader of a national Federation of Laboratories (IMOA, Ingénierie Mécanobiologie ostéoarticulaire, FR CNRS 2003) in the field of osteoarticular mechanobiology. He has been the Director of a GDR research group on fibrous media. His activities cover bone biomechanics, homogenization methods, mechanics of fibrous media, the multiphysical behavior of architected materials, and topology optimization methods. He has developed different types of bone remodeling models over the past decade, and he has been more recently considering piezoelectric and flexoelectric effects in bone. He is the author of about 300 scientific papers in international journals. He has been invited to many conferences and universities for both research and teaching activities (ETHZ, Georgia Tech Metz, TU Delft, TU Eindhoven, UBC, Vancouver). He is collaborating with many universities worldwide (Brazil, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Poland, Canada, US), and he has been invited to deliver lectures at many international conferences. He has published two books, including the monograph ‘Multiscale Biomechanics’ in Wiley in 2018. He is the frequent reviewer for over twenty international journals. He received several distinctions, including the Beltrami Prize in 2017, the Grand Prix de la Société Industrielle de l’Es in 2005, and the scientific award of excellence by the French Ministry of Research more than 10 years.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Lorraine, Nancy, FranceMS
Mitchell B. Schaffler
Mitchell B. Schaffler is a Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Bone and Joint Laboratory at the City College of New York (CCNY). Dr. Schaffler’s research aims to understand how skeletal tissues (bone, ligament, tendon, cartilage) develop, maintain and repair themselves in order to meet mechanical demands throughout life. In particular, he focuses on the cellular and integrative processes that control the architectural features of bone and tendon, and governs how they responds to physical challenges normally and in aging and in diseases such as osteoporosis, genetic defects and diabetes. He has a longstanding research focus on fatigue and repair in bone and tendon, with specific emphasis on discovering how living cells in these tissues detect and repair wear and tear damage before it accumulates to the point of mechanical failure. Dr. Schaffler’s laboratory also examines how osteocytes (the tissue-resident bone cells) influences mechanical function, both directly by modulating local matrix composition, and indirectly by controlling local bone remodeling activities. In related studies, Dr. Schaffler’s laboratory also examines how osteocytes function as mechanical sensors that allow bone to perceive and react to mechanical loading. Experimental approaches used in the Bone and Joint Laboratory focus on the cell and tissue levels, and include in vivo and tissue mechanical loading studies, mechanical and biomaterials testing, microscopy, microcomputed tomography, in vivo microscopy and super-resolution microscopy, cell culture and molecular biology. Dr. Schaffler has more than 150 peer reviewed manuscripts published in international journals, 300 peer reviewed transactions, and has been elected fellow at prestigious societies, including the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, and the American Association of Anatomists. He received the AcroMed Award for Outstanding Research, North American Spine Society, and has been Editorial Board member of the Journal of Orthopaedic Research, BONE and Anatomical Record journal.
Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Bone and Joint Laboratory, City College of New York, New York, USA