Macroscale modeling of cartilage: mixture theory versus homogenization

Issue title: 3rd International Symposium on Mechanobiology of Cartilage and Chondrocyte. Brussels, May 16–17, 2003

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Moyne, Christian | Murad, Márcio A.

Affiliations: LEMTA (UMR 7563) CNRS‐INPL‐UHP, 2, Avenue de la Forêt de Haye, 54504 Vandoeuvre lès Nancy Cedex, France | Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica LNCC/MCT, Av Getúlio Vargas 333, 25651‐070 Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil

Abstract: The equations governing the electro‐chemo‐hydro‐mechanical processes in cartilage are derived using the periodic homogenization technique. First the equations at the microscale are recalled. Then the homogenization technique is applied to propagate the physics to the macroscale. The results of this work and of the thermodynamical approach used by various authors are finally compared.

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 41, no. 3-4, pp. 215-222, 2004