Original scientific paper

Multiscale Phenomena Related to Diabetic Foot

Ante Agić
Tatjana Nikolić
Budimir Mijović

Abstract

Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases causing a system disorder, i.e.; it cannot be explained or understood by phenomena
on single material scale. The diabetic foot is studied as flexible multibody structure by nonlinear finite element
method. The physical and geometrical multiscale heterogeneity is solved by multilevel finite element approach. The diabetic
tissue is described by internal coordinate’s formalism, as complex multiscale process in tissue. The accompanying
problem of the axisymetric wound healing is solved numerically. Some results related to foot deformity, stress and strain
concentration and wound healing are presented.

Keywords

diabetic foot; multiscale modelling; finite element method

Hrčak ID:

69118

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/69118

Publication date:

24.6.2011.

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