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<strong>BULETINUL</strong> <strong>INSTITUTULUI</strong> <strong>POLITEHNIC</strong> <strong>DIN</strong> <strong>IAŞI</strong><br />

Publicat de<br />

Universitatea Tehnică „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iaşi<br />

Tomul LVIII (LXII), Fasc. 3, 2012<br />

Secţia<br />

MATEMATICĂ. MECANICĂ TEORETICĂ. FIZICĂ<br />

STATIC ANALYSIS OF THE VIRTUAL<br />

HUMAN KNEE JOINT USING FEM<br />

BY<br />

MARIUS CATANĂ and DANIELA TARNIŢĂ ∗<br />

University of Craiova,<br />

Department of Applied Mechanics<br />

Received: May 15, 2012<br />

Accepted for publication: July 10, 2012<br />

Abstract. One of the most important and most complex joint in the human<br />

body is the knee joint. The main objective of this article is to develop a threedimensional<br />

solid finite element model of the knee joint to predict stresses in its<br />

individual components (femur, tibia, peroneus, menisci and cartilages). A nonlinear<br />

analysis was performed. The non-linearities are due to the presence of the<br />

contact elements modelled between components surfaces. This paper presents a<br />

complex human knee joint model with cartilaginous tissue, using ANSYS<br />

Workbench 14.0, which show us multiple contact pairs working together (Nonlinear<br />

analysis) The applied force was equal with 800 N. In this paper the bones<br />

were assumed having isotropic material properties.<br />

Key words: knee joint, FEM, simulation, stresses, displacements.<br />

1. Introduction<br />

One of the most important joint in the human body is the knee joint.<br />

Many papers have been published about it, but most of these works use<br />

simplified models, using 2D or some using 3D approaches but without knee<br />

joint essential parts. While the mathematical models of the knee joint can be<br />

useful to predict forces and stresses in individual structures of the articulation,<br />

as well as to estimate its kinematics, validation of such models is a challenging<br />

task. It is complicated to make a computational model of the knee that<br />

∗ Corresponding author: e-mail: dtarnita@yahoo.com

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