project001
The analysis of microscopic reality often requires the use of specific designed models that can help to analyse what cannot be directly measured. This is the case of micro-fracture of trabecular bone that can lead to traumatic situation like the one of Osteoporotic patients. An ongoing study allowed us to develop a model able to describe the intrinsic non-linearity of the trabecular structure starting from micro-CT images. During this project we want to apply the developed micro finite element model of trabecular bone to a significant number of trabecular specimens with the aim to study a typical non-linear failure event: buckling of slender structures.
- Tassani, S., Matsopoulos, G. & Baruffaldi, F. 3D identification of trabecular bone fracture zone using an automatic image registration scheme: A validation study. J. Biomech. 45, 2035–40 (2012).
- Tassani, S. & Matsopoulos, G. K. The micro-structure of bone trabecular fracture: An inter-site study. Bone 60, 78–86 (2014).
- Korfiatis, V., Tassani, S. & Matsopoulos, G. A decision support system for the prediction of the trabecular fracture zone. Artif. Neural Networks 163–174 (2012). http://link.springer.com/
chapter/10.1007/978-3-642- 33212-8_15 - Korfiatis, V. C., Tassani, S., & Matsopoulos, G. K. (2017). A new Ensemble Classification System for fracture zone prediction using imbalanced micro-CT bone morphometrical data. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.
2017.2723463 - S. Tassani, M. Pani, J. Noailly, M.A. Gonzalez Ballester, Trabecular Fracture Zone Might Not Be the Higher Strain Region of the Trabecular Framework, Front. Mater. 5 (2018). doi:10.3389/fmats.2018.00006.