<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/oai-pmh.xsl"?>
<OAI-PMH xmlns="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd">
  <responseDate>2026-09-21T10:55:52Z</responseDate>
  <request identifier="oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/16700" metadataPrefix="etdms" verb="GetRecord">https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh</request>
  <GetRecord>
    <record>
      <header>
        <identifier>oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/16700</identifier>
        <datestamp>2023-07-10</datestamp>
        <setSpec>col_2142_5131</setSpec>
        <setSpec>col_2142_14787</setSpec>
        <setSpec>com_2142_5130</setSpec>
        <setSpec>com_2142_9630</setSpec>
        <setSpec>com_2142_234</setSpec>
      </header>
      <metadata>
        <thesis xmlns="http://www.ndltd.org/standards/metadata/etdms/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ndltd.org/standards/metadata/etdms/1.1/ http://www.ndltd.org/standards/metadata/etdms/1.1/etdms11.xsd http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ http://www.ndltd.org/standards/metadata/etdms/1.1/etdmsdc.xsd">
          <dc:contributor>Dantzig, Jonathan A.</dc:contributor>
          <dc:contributor>Dantzig, Jonathan A.</dc:contributor>
          <dc:contributor>Jasiuk, Iwona M.</dc:contributor>
          <dc:contributor>Turner, Charles H.</dc:contributor>
          <dc:contributor>Wagoner Johnson, Amy J.</dc:contributor>
          <dc:creator>Chennimalai Kumar, Natarajan</dc:creator>
          <dc:date>2010-08-20T17:55:21Z</dc:date>
          <dc:date>2010-08-20T17:55:21Z</dc:date>
          <dc:date>2010-08-20T17:55:21Z</dc:date>
          <dc:date>2010-08</dc:date>
          <dc:description>"It is well known that bone tissue adapts its shape and structure according to its mechanical environment. Bone adaptation occurs on the dense cortical bone and porous trabecular
bone. The process of bone adaptation is shown to be dependent on a number of mechanical
loading parameters such as magnitude, frequency, number of bouts etc. of applied loading
through experimental studies. We propose to develop a numerical framework, which can
simulate and predict cortical bone adaptation due to diff erent parameters of loading. In
pursuit of the development of the framework, we develop a method to generate fi nite element (FE) models of actual rat ulna from micro computed tomography (micro-CT) images. The
external adaptation process is implemented in the model by moving the surface nodes of the
FE mesh along the normal direction based on an evolution law characterized by two parameters: one that captures the rate of the adaptation process (referred to as gain); and the
other characterizing the threshold value of the mechanical stimulus required for adaptation
(referred to as threshold-sensitivity).
Cortical bone is  firstly modeled as an elastic material. Loading from experiments of
Robling et al is applied on the FE model and the elastic boundary value problem is
solved. Based on the results of the FE solution, the surface nodes are displaced according to
the local strain energy density as the growth stimulus. Using this stimulus, we show that the
model can simulate the e ffect of the magnitude of applied loading on the growth response.
We calibrate the growth law parameters by comparing the results from our model to the
experimental results. A parametric study is carried out to evaluate the e ffect of these two
parameters on the adaptation response. We show, following comparison of results from the
simulations to the experimental observations, that splitting the loading cycles into di fferent
number of bouts a ffects the threshold-sensitivity but not the rate of adaptation. We also
show that the threshold-sensitivity parameter can quantify the mechanosensitivity of the
osteocytes. The use of strain energy density stimulus and elastic material model cannot
simulate the e ect of frequency of applied loading on the cortical bone adaptation response.
We model cortical bone as a poroelastic material to account for the interstitial fluid flow.
We aim to develop a growth stimulus similar to strain energy density for the poroelastic
material model. In order to achieve this goal, we develop the FE model of a rectangular beam
subjected to pure bending. This geometric model is chosen for simplicity, as an idealized
representation of cortical bone. We then propose the use of the dissipation energy of the
poroelastic 
ow as a mechanical stimulus for bone adaptation, and show that it can predict the eff ect of frequency of the applied load. Surface adaptation in the model depends on the
weighted average of the mechanical stimulus in a ""zone of influence"" near each surface point,
in order to incorporate the non-locality in the mechanotransduction of osteocytes present in the lacunae. We show that the dissipation energy stimulus and the resulting increase
in second moment of inertia of the cross section increase linearly with frequency in the low
frequency range (less than 10 Hz) and saturate at the higher frequency range (greater than 10
Hz). Similar non-linear adaptation frequency response also has been observed in numerous
experiments. We extend the poroelastic material model, dissipation energy stimulus, and the zone of infuence to the actual rat ulna FE model. We implement orthotropic permeability
on the rat ulna model in order to be anatomically consistent. We calibrate the growth
law parameters (gain and threshold-sensitivity) using experimental results. We analyze the
growth response of cortical bone for a range of frequencies (from 2 Hz to 25 Hz) and show
that the adaptation response is non-linear with respect to the frequency of loading."</dc:description>
          <dc:description>Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2010-06-29T21:05:44Z
Item was in collections:
University of Illinois Theses &amp; Dissertations (ID: 1)
No. of bitstreams: 1
ChennimalaiKumar_Natarajan.pdf: 4880882 bytes, checksum: a565b2429bc4b5f11804faf38a126b18 (MD5)</dc:description>
          <dc:description>Made available in DSpace on 2010-08-20T17:55:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
ChennimalaiKumar_Natarajan.pdf: 4880882 bytes, checksum: a565b2429bc4b5f11804faf38a126b18 (MD5)
1_ChennimalaiKumar_Natarajan.pdf: 4880874 bytes, checksum: 8007e614a8152488340ccb74513c8f4e (MD5)
license.txt: 4071 bytes, checksum: b8ac9ce77cb1f81d278f4b27b2c0958e (MD5)</dc:description>
          <dc:identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/2142/16700</dc:identifier>
          <dc:language>en</dc:language>
          <dc:rights>Copyright 2010 by Natarajan Chennimalai Kumar. All rights reserved.</dc:rights>
          <dc:subject>Bone adaptation</dc:subject>
          <dc:subject>Cortical bone</dc:subject>
          <dc:subject>poroelasticity</dc:subject>
          <dc:subject>rat ulna</dc:subject>
          <dc:subject>finite element methods</dc:subject>
          <dc:subject>Biomechanics</dc:subject>
          <dc:title>Numerical modeling of cortical bone adaptation due to mechanical loading using the finite element method</dc:title>
          <degree>
            <department>Mechanical Sci &amp; Engineering</department>
            <departmentCode>1917</departmentCode>
            <discipline>Mechanical Engineering</discipline>
            <disciplineCode>0133</disciplineCode>
            <grantor>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</grantor>
            <level>Dissertation</level>
            <name>Ph.D.</name>
            <program>PHD:Mechanical Enginerng -UIUC</program>
            <programCode>10KS0133PHD</programCode>
          </degree>
        </thesis>
      </metadata>
    </record>
  </GetRecord>
</OAI-PMH>
