Implementation of a gait cycle loading into healthy and meniscectomised knee joint models with fibril-reinforced articular cartilage

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 141-152

  Mononen, Mika E ^a   Jurvelin, Jukka S ^a   Korhonen, Rami K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

fibril reinforced; gait cycle; knee joint; meniscectomy

Indexed keywords

CARTILAGE; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REINFORCEMENT; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

3D FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; FIBRIL-REINFORCED; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; GAIT CYCLES; KNEE JOINT; MAXIMUM PRINCIPAL STRESS; MENISCECTOMIES; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FIBRIL REINFORCED ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; GAIT CYCLE LOADING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNEE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL STRESS; MENISCECTOMY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SIMULATION; WALKING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GAIT; HUMAN; KNEE MENISCUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SURGERY; TIME; WEIGHT BEARING;

CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GAIT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84908032474     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2013.783575     Document Type: Article

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