Experimental evaluation of an elastic foundation model to predict contact pressures in knee replacements

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1659-1668

  Fregly, Benjamin J ^a,b   Bei, Yanhong ^a   Sylvester, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact pressure prediction; Dynamic modeling; Total knee replacements

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); OPTIMIZATION;

TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT DESIGNS;

BIOMECHANICS;

BIOMATERIAL; POLYETHYLENE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; GEOMETRY; IMPLANT; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 0141569189     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(03)00176-3     Document Type: Article

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