Vahdati - MSc student, Sahand University of Technology ,Tabriz, Iran
Rouhi - Assistant professor, University of Ottawa, Canada
Ghalichi - Assistant professor, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran
Tahani - Assistant professor ,Ferdowsi University Mashad, Iran

A regulatory mechanism for mechanical adaptation of trabecular bone proposed by Huiskes and collegues [1] is implemented and studied in a MATLAB code. In addition to simulating the Osteocyte mechanosensory role and separation of Osteoclast and Osteoblast activity as proposed in [1], we improved this theory by including effect of Turner’s cellular accommodation [2]. We obtained trabecular-like structures for different loading conditions. The model was able to predict stress shielding and also showed qualities of global mechanical optimality.

Mechanical adaptation of bone، Trabecular bone، Finite element method، Bone remodeling