Smooth surface micro finite element modelling of a cancellous bone analogue material
Leung, S-Y, Browne, M. and New, A.M.R. (2007) Smooth surface micro finite element modelling of a cancellous bone analogue material. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine (In Press).
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Description/Abstract
Tetrahedral finite element meshes with smooth surfaces can be created from computed tomography scans of cancellous bone in order to evaluate its mechanical properties. Image processing before creation of the mesh can affect the accuracy of determined mechanical properties. For a cancellous bone analogue, threshold, mesh density and surface smoothing parameters used in mesh generation were varied and the mechanical properties predicted by the resulting meshes compared to experimental results. This study has shown that threshold selection is vital for accurate determination of volume fraction and resulting mechanical properties. Smoothing of the surface also affects the local accuracy of the models.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0954-4119 (print) |
| Keywords: | finite element modelling, cancellous bone, image processing |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Engineering Sciences > Bioengineering Sciences |
| Item ID: | 48528 |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Sep 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 04:47 |
| Contributors: | Leung, S-Y (Author) Browne, M. (Author) New, A.M.R. (Author) |
| Date: | 27 September 2007 |
| Status: | In Press |
| Contact Email Address: | a.m.new@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/48528 |
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