EQUIVALENCE OF ELASTIC CONTACT AND FINITE ELEMENT MODELS OF PATIENT-SPECIFIC CONTACT STRESS EXPOSURE IN THE HUMAN ANKLE.

Authors :: Kern, Andrew M.
Anderson, Donald D.
Brown, Thomas D.
Source :: Conference Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics; 2010, p90-91, 2p
Publication Year :: 2010
Abstract: The article discusses a study of the equivalence of contact stresses (CS) in the human ankle using elastic contact (EC) and finite element (FE) models. The researchers assessed CS in eleven models of intact ankles and compared the results with the FE results on site-by-site basis. They found a mean difference between EC and FE CS of 0.42 MegaPascals across all levels. They also observed that there was a small bias towards the EC having higher CS than FE.

Subjects :: ANKLE
JOINTS (Anatomy)
CONTACT mechanics
BIOMECHANICS
FINITE element method

Language :: English
Database :: Complementary Index
Journal :: Conference Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics
Publication Type :: Conference
Accession number :: 63238517

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