A phenomenological approach toward patient-specific computational modeling of articular cartilage including collagen fiber tracking

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 131, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Pierce, David M ^a   Trobin, Werner ^a   Trattnig, Siegfried ^b   Bischof, Horst ^a   Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^a,c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Collagen fibers; Finite element simulation; Finite viscoelasticity; Indentation testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICULAR CARTILAGES; COLLAGEN FIBERS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FINITE VISCOELASTICITY; INDENTATION TESTING;

BONE; CARTILAGE; COLLAGEN; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; FABRICS; FIBERS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); LIGAMENTS; LOADING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MECHANICAL TESTING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; RESONANCE; STATISTICS; SURFACES; TENSORS; THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN;

ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BONE PLATE; CALIBRATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; VALIDATION STUDY; VISCOELASTICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; TENSILE STRENGTH; YOUNG MODULUS;

CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; COLLAGEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 73849093041     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: 15288951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3148471     Document Type: Article

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