Meshless method for modeling of human proximal femur: Treatment of nonconvex boundaries and stress analysis

Computational Mechanics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 390-400

  Liew, K M ^a   Wu, H Y ^a   Ng, T Y ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Meshless method; Nonconvex boundary; Proximal femur; Reproducing kernel particle approximate

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOMECHANICS; BONE; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

HUMAN PROXIMAL FEMUR; KERNEL PARTICLE APPROXIMATION; MESHLESS METHOD; NONCONVEX BOUNDARIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0036577031     PISSN: 01787675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00466-002-0303-5     Document Type: Article

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