Simulations of bone remodeling at the cellular scale

Bone is adapted to mechanical loading. This is most apparent in cancellous bone, which is found on the inside of our bones, and consists of a porous lattice of branching struts called 'trabeculae'. It has long been recognized that these trabeculae are aligned to the direction of mechanical loading. It also holds for cortical bone, which makes up the dense outer shell of our bones, and contains man…