Table of Contents
| 1. Numerical and experimental analysis of biomechanics of three lumbar vertebrae | |
| Tomasz Antosik, Jan Awrejcewicz | 413-434 |
| 2. Hip joint implants – survey of numerical modeling | |
| Czesław Bajer, Paweł Małdyk, Jacek Kowalczewski | 435-454 |
| 3. Biomechanical aspects of artificial joint implantation in a lower limb | |
| Romuald Będziński, Marek Bernakiewicz, Krzysztof Ścigała | 455-479 |
| 4. Design and manufacturing of the human bone endoprostheses using computer-aided systems | |
| Marek Dietrich, Krzysztof Kędzior, Konstanty Skalski | 481-503 |
| 5. Fatigue damage and reliability assessment of cemented hip prosthesis | |
| Krzysztof Doliński | 505-518 |
| 6. Intra-extrafibrillar mixture formulation of soft charged hydrated tissues | |
| Jacques M. Huyghe | 519-536 |
| 7. A contribution to modelling of anisotropic behaviour of bone and bone remodelling | |
| Stanisław Jemioło, Józef Joachim Telega | 537-554 |
| 8. Numerical evaluation of sensitivity of stress distribution in bone to geometric parameters of endoprosthesis | |
| Piotr Kowalczyk | 555-577 |
| 9. The wide band ultrasonic spectroscopy in studying bones and porous implants | |
| Józef Kubik, Mariusz Kaczmarek, Michał Pakuła | 579-591 |
| 10. Modeling of the lubrication mechanism in human joints using micropolar fluid theory | |
| Anna Kucaba-Piętal | 593-606 |
| 11. Optimality conditions in modeling of bone adaptation phenomenon | |
| Tomasz Lekszycki | 607-623 |
| 12. The stiffness characteristics of a healthy or damaged by aseptic necrosis femoral head | |
| Aleksandr E. Loskutov, Vasilii L. Krasovsky, Aleksandr E. Oleynik | 625-638 |
| 13. Numerical simulation of adaptive bone remodeling | |
| Thomas Pandorf, Abdelkader Haddi, Dieter Christian Wirtz, Jan Lammerding, Raimund Forst, Dieter Weichert | 639-658 |
| 14. Numerical simulation of bone-implant systems using a more realistic model of the contact interfaces with adhesion | |
| Jerzy Rojek, Józef Joachim Telega | 659-686 |
| 15. Application of the reiterated homogenization to determination of effective noduli of a compact bone | |
| Józef Joachim Telega, Andrzej Gałka, Stanisław Tokarzewski | 687-706 |
| 16. A contribution to evaluation of effective moduli of trabecular bone with rod-like microstructure | |
| Stanisław Tokarzewski, Józef Joachim Telega, Andrzej Gałka | 707-728 |
| 17. Growth, adaptation and aging of the skeletal system | |
| Harrie Weinans | 729-741 |