A comparison of different methods in predicting static pressure distribution in articulating joints

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 635-638

  Guoan, Li ^a,b   Sakamoto, Makoto ^a   Chao, Edmund Y S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Articular joint; Contact analysis; Contact pressure; Joint contact; Joint model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORTHOPEDICS;

MODIFIED HERTZIAN (MH) THEORY; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTIONS; RIGID BODY SPRING MODEL (RBSM); SIMPLIFIED ELASTICITY SOLUTION (SES);

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CALCULATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOMECHANICS; JOINTS; MATHEMATICS; METHODS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRESSURE;

EID: 0343554682     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(97)00009-2     Document Type: Article

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