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Figure 5

From: Numerical simulation of strain-adaptive bone remodelling in the ankle joint

Figure 5

Bone adaptation law of Bouguecha et al. [32]used in the simulation. In this figure, the apparent bone density evolution rate ṗ in dependency of the bone remodelling stimulus ξ is illustrated. Bone resorption occurs in an underloading condition when the bone formation rate is negative. Formation of new bone tissue occurs in an overloading condition and a positive bone formation rate. Within a dead zone z, a change of the bone remodelling stimulus does neither lead to formation nor to resorption of bone tissue. After exceeding a certain stimulus y, bone tissue is overloaded to such an extent, that lysis of bone tissue occurs.

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