Journal
ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 45, Issue 10, Pages 2395-2408Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-017-1877-6
Keywords
Bone mechanical behaviour; Femur fracture; Numerical modelling; Fracture prediction; XFEM; Composite bone
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Funding
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
- FEDER [DPI2013-46641-R, RTC-2015-3887-8]
- Generalitat Valenciana [Prometeo/2016/007]
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Bone fracture pattern prediction is still a challenge and an active field of research. The main goal of this article is to present a combined methodology (experimental and numerical) for femur fracture onset analysis. Experimental work includes the characterization of the mechanical properties and fracture testing on a bone simulant. The numerical work focuses on the development of a model whose material properties are provided by the characterization tests. The fracture location and the early stages of the crack propagation are modelled using the extended finite element method and the model is validated by fracture tests developed in the experimental work. It is shown that the accuracy of the numerical results strongly depends on a proper bone behaviour characterization.
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