Advances introduced by additive manufacturing have significantly improved the ability to
tailor scaffold architecture, enhancing the control over microstructural features. This has led …

Tissue engineering is a concept whereby cells are taken from a patient, their number
expanded and seeded on a scaffold. The appropriate stimuli (chemical, biological …

The emergence of low-cost 3D printers steers the investigation of new geometric problems
that control the quality of the fabricated object. In this paper, we present a method to reduce …

In the field of bone defect repair, gradient porous scaffolds have received increased
attention because they provide a better environment for promoting tissue regeneration. In …

This course shows the ways that 3D printing and 3D bioprinting are revolutionizing the
available treatments available for medical needs. 3D bioprinting requires collaboration …

New advanced manufacturing technologies under the alias of additive biomanufacturing
allow the design and fabrication of a range of products from pre-operative models, cutting …

We propose a new approach to modelling heterogeneous objects containing internal
volumetric structures with size of details orders of magnitude smaller than the overall size of …

With the recent development of Iso-geometric Analysis (IGA)(Cottrell et al., 2009) and
advanced manufacturing technologies employing heterogeneous materials, such as …

Advances in additive manufacturing technologies facilitate the fabrication of cellular
materials that have tailored functional characteristics. The application of solid freeform …

Computer models of random heterogeneous materials are becoming increasingly important
in order to support the latest advances in material science, biomedical applications and …