Predicting the yield of the proximal femur using high-order finite-element analysis with inhomogeneous orthotropic material properties

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1920, 2010, Pages 2707-2723

  Yosibash, Zohar ^a   Tal, David ^a   Trabelsi, Nir ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anisotropic materials; Computed tomography (CT); Finite element analysis; Micromechanics; P FEM; Proximal femur

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORECASTING; FRACTURE; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MICROMECHANICS; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ANISOTROPIC MATERIAL; COMPRESSION FORCE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT SCAN; DRUCKER-PRAGER; FE MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FINITE-ELEMENT; FRACTURE LOCATION; HIGH-ORDER; HUMAN FEMUR; IN-VITRO; ISOTROPIC AND ORTHOTROPIC MATERIAL; ISOTROPIC MATERIALS; LOADING CONFIGURATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPAL STRAIN; MAXIMUM PRINCIPAL STRESS; ORTHOTROPIC MATERIAL PROPERTIES; PROXIMAL FEMUR; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC; VON MISES; YIELD CRITERIA; YIELD FORCE; YIELD PREDICTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FEMUR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEIGHT BEARING; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANISOTROPY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; FEMUR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 77953523917     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0074     Document Type: Article

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