A proposed computational biomechanics cyber-infrastructure for multi-phase and multi-scale problems: delivering biomechanics to the surgeon

Abstract

This paper presents a new direction for practitioners of computational biomechanics. It provides a description of three prototype software platforms, which demonstrate how the cyber-infrastructure can be used to integrate the algorithms of computational biomechanics to solve multi-phase and multi-scale problems. Then, a development platform is presented. This platform can also deliver integrated biomechanics into the surgical ward for surgical planning. This platform performs these tasks without the need for advanced network software tools: an appendix provides all the simple and fundamental open source and CI technologies that are required. The overarching goal of this paper is to make the potential of the emerging cyber-infrastructure comprehensible and accessible to practitioners of computational biomechanics.

Keywords:

• Computational biomechanics
• Multi-phase problem
• Multi-scale problem
• Surgeon