Multiscale Biomechanics

Jean-François Ganghoffer was a CNRS fellow from 1992 to 2000, before being hired as full Professor of mechanics in Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France), where he is currently active. He is the head of the biomechanics team of LEM3, the Laboratoire d’Etude des Microstructures et de Mécanique des Matériaux. He is the leader of a national Federation of Laboratories (IMOA, Ingénierie Mécanobiologie ostéoarticulaire, FR CNRS 2003) in the field of osteoarticular mechanobiology. He has been the Director of a GDR research group on fibrous media. His activities cover bone biomechanics, homogenization methods, mechanics of fibrous media, the multiphysical behavior of architected materials, and topology optimization methods. He has developed different types of bone remodeling models over the past decade, and he has been more recently considering piezoelectric and flexoelectric effects in bone. He is the author of about 300 scientific papers in international journals. He has been invited to many conferences and universities for both research and teaching activities (ETHZ, Georgia Tech Metz, TU Delft, TU Eindhoven, UBC, Vancouver). He is collaborating with many universities worldwide (Brazil, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Poland, Canada, US), and he has been invited to deliver lectures at many international conferences. He has published two books, including the monograph ‘Multiscale Biomechanics’ in Wiley in 2018. He is the frequent reviewer for over twenty international journals. He received several distinctions, including the Beltrami Prize in 2017, the Grand Prix de la Société Industrielle de l’Es in 2005, and the scientific award of excellence by the French Ministry of Research more than 10 years.

• Part 1. Theoretical Basis: Continuum Mechanics, Homogenization Methods, Thermodynamics of Growing Solid Bodies1. Tensor Calculus Jean-François GANGHOFFER2. Continuum Mechanics Jean-François GANGHOFFER3. Constitutive Models of Soft and Hard Living Tissues Jean-François GANGHOFFER4. Discrete Homogenization of Network Materials Jean-François GANGHOFFER and Khaled EL NADY5. Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Volumetric and Surface Growth Jean-François GANGHOFFERPart 2. Multiscale Bone Mechanics6. Micropolar Models of Trabecular Bone Jean-François GANGHOFFER and Ibrahim GODA7. Size-Dependent Dynamic Behavior of Trabecular Bone Jean-François GANGHOFFER, Ibrahim GODA, Rachid RAHOUADJ8. Prediction of Size Effects in Bone Brittle and Plastic Collapse Jean-François GANGHOFFER and Ibrahim GODA9. Multiscale Aspects of Bone Internal and External Remodeling Jean-François GANGHOFFER and Ibrahim GODA10. Integrated Remodeling to Fatigue Damage Model of Bone Jean-François GANGHOFFER and Ibrahim GODAPart 3. Mechanics of Soft Biological Tissues: The Intervertebral Disk, Biological Networks, Ligaments and Tendons11. Micromechanics of the Intervertebral Disk Adrien BALDIT12. Effective Mechanical Response of Biological Membranes Khaled EL NADY, Jean-François GANGHOFFER and Ibrahim GODA13. Micromechanics of Ligaments and Tendons Cédric LAURENT