Engineering Mechanics

Proceedings Vol. 12 (2006)

ENGINEERING MECHANICS 2006

Copyright © 2006 Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague

 

J. Vyčichl, O. Jiroušek, J. Jírová
pages 438 - +5p., full text

The article deals with contact stress analysis of pelvic bone after implantation of cemented acetabular component with imperfections of cemented layer. 3D high resolution FE model of pelvic bone was created from the sequence of CT– slices. Imperfections were created both in the cement layer and in the bone tissue by drilling fixation holes. Boolean operations were used for inserting the spherical cemented component. Two contacts were defined in the FE model. The first contact is defined between the cement layer and the pelvic bone and the second one is between the cement layer and the polyethylene cup. The model was loaded by quasi–static joint forces, representing the maximum value of stance phase of gait [Bergmann et al., 2001]. The FE model was used to ascertain the contact stress conditions in the underlying subchondral bone.

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