Editors:
Provides the first comprehensive treatment of physiologic attachment from the engineering perspective
Presents the first treatment of engineering attachment in the context of schemes observed in nature
Discusses current surgical techniques for soft tissue to bone healing and repair
Explains synthesis of bioengineered and biomimetic interfaces
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Attachment of Dissimilar Materials: Challenges and Solutions
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Front Matter
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Attachment of dissimilar materials: challenges and solutions
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Natural Examples of Transitions from Stiff to Compliant Materials
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Front Matter
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Natural examples of transitions from stiff to compliant materials
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Regeneration of Interfaces: Development, Healing, and Tissue Engineering
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Front Matter
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Regeneration of interfaces – development, healing, and tissue engineering
About this book
Attachment of dissimilar materials in engineering and surgical practice is a perennial challenge. Bimaterial attachment sites are common locations for injury, repeated injury, and mechanical failure. Nature presents several highly effective solutions to the challenge of bimaterial attachment that differ from those found in engineering practice. Structural Interfaces and Attachments in Biology describes the attachment of dissimilar materials from multiple perspectives. The text will simultaneously elucidate natural bimaterial attachments and outline engineering principles underlying successful attachments to the communities of tissue engineers and surgeons. Included an in-depth analysis of the biology of attachments in the body and mechanisms by which robust attachments are formed, a review of current concepts of attaching dissimilar materials in surgical practice and a discussion of bioengineering approaches that are currently being developed.
Keywords
- Bioengineering
- Bioengineering
- Bioengineering
- Biomechanics
- Biomechanics
- Biomechanics
- Bone healing
- Bone healing
- Bone healing
- Compliant materials
- Compliant materials
- Compliant materials
- Material interfaces
- Material interfaces
- Material interfaces
- Mechanobiology
- Mechanobiology
- Mechanobiology
- Nanofiber
- Nanofiber
- Nanofiber
- Soft tissue
- Soft tissue
- Soft tissue
- Structural Interfaces
- Structural Interfaces
- Structural Interfaces
- Tissue engineering
- Tissue engineering
- Tissue engineering
Editors and Affiliations
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, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
Stavros Thomopoulos
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, Engineering Education Center, Missouri University of Science and Tech., St. Louis, USA
Victor Birman
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, Mechanical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
Guy M. Genin
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Structural Interfaces and Attachments in Biology
Editors: Stavros Thomopoulos, Victor Birman, Guy M. Genin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3317-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3316-3Published: 05 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9486-8Published: 09 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-3317-0Published: 05 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 388
Topics: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Biomaterials, Surgical Orthopedics