Predicting skull loading: Applying multibody dynamics analysis to a macaque skull

Anatomical Record

Volumn 291, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 491-501

  Curtis, Neil ^a   Kupczik, Kornelius ^b   O'Higgins, Paul ^c   Moazen, Mehran ^a   Fagan, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bite force; Finite element analysis; Macaque; Multibody dynamics analysis; Muscle force

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRONTAL BONE; JAW MUSCLE; MACACA; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MASTICATION; MASTICATORY MUSCLE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; TEMPORAL BONE; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BITE FORCE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MASTICATORY MUSCLES; SKULL; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT;

MACACA FASCICULARIS;

EID: 43149107457     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20689     Document Type: Article

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