Finite element models of bones loaded by muscle forces.
This work has been done through a collaboration between the [EDDy Lab](https://www.eddylab.uliege.be/)(Prof. Valentin Fisher) and the [Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering](https://www.am.uliege.be/)(R. Boman, J.-P. Ponthot) at the University of Liège.
This work has been done through a collaboration between the [EDDy Lab](https://www.eddylab.uliege.be/)(Prof. Valentin Fisher) and the [Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering](https://www.am.uliege.be/)(R. Boman) at the University of Liège.
More information in the [fossils Wiki](https://gitlab.uliege.be/rboman/fossils/-/wikis/home).
## References
* Chatar, N., Boman, R., Fallon Gaudichon, V., MacLaren, J. A., & Fischer, V. (2023). *‘Fossils’: A new, fast and open-source protocol to simulate muscle-driven biomechanical loading of bone*. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14, 848–859. ([pdf](https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14051)) ([blog](https://methodsblog.com/2023/03/28/fossils-free-fast-and-open-source-biomechanical-modelling/))
* Chatar, N. (2023). *Disparity, evolution, and convergence among felid and felid-like carnivorans*. PhD thesis, ULiège. ([pdf](https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/306184))
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