Hexahedral mesh development of free-formed geometry: The human femur exemplified

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 566-572

  Schonning, Alexandra ^a   Oommen, Binu ^b   Ionescu, Irina ^c   Conway, Ted ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element modelling; Hexahedral mesh; Human femur

Indexed keywords

BONE MARROW; CANCELLOUS BONE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; GEOMETRICAL NONLINEARITY; HEXAHEDRAL MESH; HUMAN FEMORA; HUMAN FEMUR; MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS AND DEFORMATION; VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

BONE;

EID: 67649519460     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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