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In femoral head necrosis, the cortical shell of the femoral head collapses and buckles into the cancellous bone. The purpose of this study is to explore the biomechanical characteristics of the femoral head and the necrosis region by comparing the results before and after drug treatment. In this paper, we study two patient cases with femoral head necrosis disease and establish the corresponding computational three-dimensional models. The results show that the deformation of the femur decreases slightly after the treatment, the equivalent stress distributes more evenly, and the stress magnitude reduces. The results also reveal that the volume of the necrosis in the femoral head decreases after treatment, the overall necrosis presents relatively lower equivalent stress, and the area with the relatively high equivalent stress is smaller comparing to the necrosis in femoral head before treatment.

It was performed nonlinear finite element analysis for K-shape eccentrically braced steel frames on link beam. Analysis indicates that the strength, rigidity, ductility and energy-dissipation performance of K shape eccentrically braced steel frames deteriorate differently with the length increase of link beam. The shorter the link beam is, the larger plastic deformation of it, so it makes plastic collapse easily, while a long link beam has a poor cyclic behavior. At the end of this paper, compared with the experimental results show that the finite element method is feasible, the results can provide a reference for the engineering design and related research.

The seismic performance of K-shape eccentrically frames were researched by cyclic loading test method, in order to understand earthquake performance, stiffness degradation and dissipation mechanism of energy. It can be concluded that K-shape eccentrically frames provide high elastic stiffness and demonstrate excellent energy dissipation capacity in the plastic stage, the different length of the link beam of different layers has great influence on the energy dissipation capacity of the structure, when shear yielding of link beam occurs, stiffness degradation become apparent, the hysteretic curves were plump in shapes. Therefore, K-shape eccentrically frames have better hysteretic behavior and energy dissipation capacity, the results can provide a reference for the engineering design and related research.