8:45      Complimentary Breakfast

9:40      Opening Remarks
 
 

9:45 Trabecular Tissue Elastic and Failure Property Calibration Using the High-Resolution Finite Element Method

        H.H. Bayraktar, G.L. Niebur and T.M. Keaveny
 

10:00 Computation of Local Strain Fields in Bone Microstructures Under Load

        A. Nazarian, M. Stauber and R. Muller
 

10:15 A Finite Element Model of the Human Foot and Ankle

          W.R. Ledoux, D.L.A. Camacho, R.P. Chin and, B.J. Sangeorzan
 

10:30 Increased Endplate Deflection May Cause Fractures  Associated With Vertebroplasty

          G. Baroud and T. Steffen
 

10:45 Effects of Loading Condition on Three-Dimensional Structural Change of Trabeculae Around Bone-Screw Interface

        K. Tsubota, M. Shibutani, T. Adachi and Y. Tomita
 

11:00 Validation of an FE Algorithm to Simulate Cement Damage Accumulation Around THA Stems

        J. Stolk, N. Verdonschot, S. Maher, P. Prendergast and R. Huiskes
 

11:15 Numerical Simulations of In Situ Polymerization Behavior of Bone Cements

        C. Li, S. Kotha, C.H. Huang, J.J. Mason, D. Yakimicki and M. Hawkins
 

11:30 Use of Simulation Technology and Visualization Model to Study External Fixator Adjustability

        Y.H. Kim, J.J. Elias, N. Inoue and E.Y.S. Chao
 

11:45 - 12:45  Complimentary Lunch
 
 

12:45 Incorporation of In Vivo Human Kinetic Data into a Finite Element Model of THA Dislocation

         M.E. Nadzadi, D.R. Pederson, H.J. Yack, J.J. Callaghan and T.D. Brown
 

1:00 A Finite Element Model of the Human Knee Joint to Compute Tibio-Femoral Contact: Sensitivity to Meniscal Boundary Conditions and Material Properties

        T.L Haut Donohue, M.L. Hull, M.M. Rashid and C.R. Jacobs
 

1:15 Effect of ACL Deficiency on Knee Kinematics - A 3D Computational Model Simulation

        J. Suggs and G. Li
 

1:30 An Explicit Three-Dimensional Finite Element Model of the Human ACL: Influence of a Residual Stress Within the Ligament During Passive Knee Flexion

        G. Limbert and M. Taylor
 

1:45 Fibril Stiffening Accounts for Strain-Dependent Stiffness of Articular Cartilage in UnconfinedCompression

         L.P. Li, M.D. Buschmann and Shirazi-Adl
 

2:00 Dynamic Response of a Lumbar Motion Segment to Cyclic Loading

        J.R. Williams, R.N. Natarajan and G.B.J. Andersson
 

2:15 Micro-Cellular Finite Element Model in the Intervertebral Disc

        L. Pianalto and N.A. Duncan
 

2:30 Simulation of Growth Factor Influences on Secondary Fracture Healing

        A. Bailon-Plaza and M.C.H. van der Meulen
 

2:45   Break
 
 

3:15 Influence of Osteoporosis Related Morphological Changes on the Internal Straining of the Tibia

        J. Seebeck, M.O. Heller, E. Schneider and G.N. Duda
 

3:30 Data Clustering Based Segmentation Algorithms for Bone CT Images

           D.Z. Chen and X. Wu
 

3:45 A New Automated 3D Finite Element Mesh Generation Method from Medical Images

             S. Yi, D. Chen and J. Mason
 

4:00 Automating Voxel-Based Contact Finite Element Models

          N.M. Grosland, D.R. Pederson and T.D. Brown
 

4:15  Two Finite Element Models for Simulation of the Spinal Burst Fracture Process

           F. Tirbois, R.K. Wilcox, B. Benat, R.M. Hall and D.C. Barton
 

4:30 Methods to Achieve a Numerically Stable Finite Element Model of a Multi-Contact InterfaceRotating Platform Total Knee

          J.K. Otto, J.J. Callaghan and T.D. Brown
 

4:45 A New Graph-Based Skeletonization Method

          S. Yi, D. Chen and J. Mason
 

5:00     Concluding Remarks

5:10      Adjourn