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ISBN Bone mechanics belongs to one of the oldest and best-developed fields of biomechanics. It is still being developed, both from the traditional and modern points of view. New trends in bone mechanics owe much to the micromechanics, particularly to homogenization and tissue engineering, as well as to cell and molecular biology. This impressive volume over pp , edited by a well-known specialist in bone mechanics, also includes these new developments and trends.

It clearly shows that bone mechanics has become a strongly interdisciplinary field of research. The book consists of six sections, each of which in turn includes several mostly review articles written by various acclaimed authors.

The first section is concerned with basic biological aspects of bone including some molecular techniques applied to measure skeletal gene expression. To grasp the content of Section I the reviewer had to study a book on molecular biology and biochemistry first.

Section II opens with a paper by SC Cowin on basic notions of the mechanics of materials presented at the simple and lucid level of strength of materials. Micro- and nano-testing, as well as acoustic tests, have also been concisely described. Bone has a hierarchical architecture, and an important problem is to perform tests on single lamellae and trabeculae.

In bone mechanics not only human bones are tested, but a lot of research has been devoted to animal models for biomechanical tests. Advantages and disadvantages of tests performed on animals are briefly discussed. Of the other two experimental papers mentioned, the second one deals with the development of strain gauges for use with bone and tabulates the in vivo strain measurements recorded over the years to quantify the mechanical loading environment of the skeleton.

The tabulated data, obtained by various authors over the years, are of great value. Spatial resolution, advantages, disadvantages, and applicability of each of these techniques have been analyzed. Section III, the longest one, contains 11 papers. The first of them by XE Gao, strongly related to the experimental papers of Section II, is concerned with mechanical properties of the cortical bone and cancellous bone tissue.

Microindentation and nanoindentation tests used to characterize the bone tissue properties have also been characterized. The second paper, by R Lakes, deals with the bone viscoelasticity, a topic always somewhat controversial.

The author claims that the physical cause of viscoelasticity is, at least partially, due to fluid flow in a porous material like bone and to interfaces such as the cement lines the biological significance is not known. The authors of some of the previous papers claimed that cement lines contribute to plastic time-independent behavior of wet bone.

The unanswered question is: is the mechanical behavior of cement lines time-dependent or time-independent? In the subsequent paper, E Lucchinetti reviews some approaches to macroscopic bone modeling where bone is treated as a composite.

For instance, consider a bone as a two-phase material. This is an old problem in the mechanics of composites and micromechanics. The author has reviewed older approaches, like those due to Voigt and Reuss, as well as newer ones proposed by biomechanicians. Unfortunately, vast possibilities offered by modern micromechanics, homogenization, and bounding techniques have not been exploited except for a contribution on reiterated homogenization.

This reviewer and his coworkers wrote many papers on application of homogenization methods to bone modeling See the relevant papers in Acta Bioeng. In a subsequent paper, Lucchinetti reviews the results concerning the increasing evidence that the mechanical properties of the bone depend not only on its microstructure, but also on the molecular structure of the organic and inorganic components.

Three subsequent papers are exclusively devoted to cancellous bone. The purpose of the first paper, by A Odgaard, is to overview available methods for quantification of the architecture of cancellous bone. Only the methods applied to histological sections and 3D reconstructions have been discussed. His arguments prove the contrary: the cancellous bone architecture may be viewed as random and described by using the geometry of random fields.

The second paper, by B van Rietbergen and R Huiskes, is concerned with the anisotropic behavior of cancellous bone and how it is related to its microstructure.

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