Journal of BiomechanicsAffiliated with the American Society of Biomechanics, the International Society of Biomechanics, the European Society of Biomechanics, the Japanese Society for Clinical Biomechanics and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Biomechanics.

Editor-in-Chief

Farshid GuilakDepts. of Orthopaedic Surgery, BME, and MEMS, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3093, Med. Sci. Res. Bldg. RM 375, Durham, NC 27710, USA

Editorial Board

Associate EditorsFrank P.T. Baaijens, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The NetherlandsAurelio Cappozzo, University of Rome “Foro Italico”, Roma, ItalyJonathan Dingwell, University of Texas at Austin, Autsin, TX, USAMarcus Pandy, University of Melbourne, Australia Saeed A. Shirazi-Adl, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, CanadaMelody A. Swartz, Swiss Institute of Experimental Cancer Research, Lausanne, SwitzerlandASB RepresentativesRichard N. Hinrichs, Arizona State University, Arizona, USANicholas Stergiou, University of Nebraska at Omaha, NE, USAESB RepresentativesLuca Cristofolini, University of Bologna, ItalyHans Van Oosterwyck, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

ISB RepresentativesDavid Lloyd, Griffi th Health Institute, QLD, AustraliaTon van den Bogert, Orchard Kinetics, OH, USAANZSB RepresentativesPeter Hunter, University of Auckland, Auckland, New ZealandDavid Lloyd, University of Western Australia, AustraliaIndependent MembersJohn D. Currey, University of York, UKWalter Herzog, University of Calgary, Alberta, CanadaJohn P. Paul, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UKMasaaki Sato, Tohoku University, JapanNico Westerhof, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Editorial Advisory Board

Kai-Nan An, USAThomas P. Andriacchi, USA Thomas D. Brown, USA David B. Burr, USA David Butler, USALutz Claes, Germany

Stephen C. Cowin, USA Cyril B. Frank, Canada Vijay K. Goel, USA Steven A. Goldstein, USA Roger C. Haut, USAMaury Hull, USAPaavo V. Komi, Finland

Van C. Mow, USA Nikos Stergiopolous, Switzerland Ray Vito, USAPeter S. Walker, USA Savio L. Woo, USAPeter Zioupos, UK

Consulting Editors

Taiji Adachi, JapanAdamantios Arampatzis, GermanyRichard M. Aspden, UK Gerard Ateshian, USAJoan E. Bechtold, USA Maarten F. Bobbert, The Netherlands Thomas Buchanan, USA Peter Butler, USAKrishnan B Chandran, USAJacek Cholewicki, USA Joseph J. Crisco III, USA Tim David, New Zealand Scott Delp, USA Paul DeVita, USAJonathan Dingwell, USAManuel Doblare, Spain Dawn Elliott, USA David P. Fyhrie, USA Denis Gagnon, CanadaAmit Gefen, Israel

Mark D. Grabiner, USA Mansoor Haider, USATammy Haut-Donahue, USAJeffrey Holmes, USAJay D. Humphrey, USA James C. Iatridis, USA Keita Ito, Netherlands Jukka Jurvelin, Finland Ghassan Kassab, USAJoyce H. Keyak, USA Melissa L. Knothe Tate, USA Sean S. Kohles, USA Alberto Leardini, ItalyAmy Lerner, USAMarc Levenston, USAShu Liu, USAQuan Long, UK Karol Miller, Australia Mohammad K. Mofrad, USAGlen Niebur, USA Maury Nussbaum, USA

Fergal O’Brien, IrelandMichael R. Pierrynowski, CanadaDomique Pioletti, SwitzerlandPatrick J. Prendergast, IrelandAntonius Rohlmann, GermanyMichael S. Sacks, USA Joan E. Sanders, USA Lori A. Setton, USA Louis J. Soslowsky, USA David Steinman, CanadaIan A. F. Stokes, USA Eiji Tanaka, JapanScott Tashman, USA Huub M. Toussaint, Netherlands Frans van de Vosse, NetherlandsAntonie Van den Bogert, USAJos Vander Sloten, Belgium Pascal Verdonck, BelgiumMarco Viceconti, Italy William R. Walsh, Australia James H.C. Wang, USA Takami Yamaguchi, JapanPhilippe K. Zysset, Switzerland