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Finite element modelling of bone tissue
scaffolds
A. BOCCACCIO , Politecnico di Bari, Italy , A. MESSINA ,
Universit à del Salento, Italy , C. PAPPALETTERE , Politecnico
di Bari, Italy and M. SCARAGGI , Universit à del Salento, Italy
DOI: 10.1533/9780857096739.4.485
Abstract : Nowadays, it is widely recognized that a large number of
phenomenological degrees of freedom basically rule the functionality
of bone tissue scaffolds. As a consequence of this, the design of scaffolds
for tissue engineering involves multidisciplinary and multi-scale aspects,
the latter ...