The Impact of Simplifications on the Performance of a Finite Element Model of a Macaca fascicularis Cranium

Anatomical Record

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 107-121

  Fitton, Laura C ^a   Prôa, Miguel ^a   Rowland, Charlie ^a   Toro ibacache, Viviana ^a,b   O'higgins, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Cranial deformation; Finite element analysis; Fossil hominins; Geometric morphometrics; Model building; Procrustes size and shape analysis; Sensitivity study; Virtual reconstruction

Indexed keywords

MACACA FASCICULARIS;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CERCOCEBUS ATYS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOSSIL; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MASTICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKULL; STOMATOGNATHIC SYSTEM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BITE FORCE; CERCOCEBUS ATYS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOSSILS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKULL; STOMATOGNATHIC SYSTEM;

EID: 84919740292     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.23075     Document Type: Article

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