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JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME
Volume 123, Issue 5, Pages 396-402Publisher
ASME
DOI: 10.1115/1.1392311
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Implant separation from bone tissue, resulting in the necessity,for revision surgery, is a serious drawback of cementless total joint replacement. Unnatural stress distribution around the implant is considered the main reason for the failure. Optimization of the implant properties, especially its geometric parameters. is believed to be the right way to. improve reliability of joint prosthetics. An efficient numerical model of the femur-implant system is presented in the paper, including the finite element formulation featuring computation of sensitivity, gradients, parametric mesh generator, and a gradient-based optimization scheme. Numerical examples show results of shape optimization of tin implant for two sets of design parameters and for the initial stability criterion taken as the optimization goal. The optimum shape appears to be relatively, long and proximally porous-coated on about half of its length. The method can be flexibly adjusted to various implant types, stress- and displacement-based optimum criteria, find geometric design parameters.
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