On the contact modelling and analysis of human knee joint

The goal of this work is to study the influence of the contact force model and contact material properties on the dynamic response of a human knee joint. For this purpose, a multibody knee model composed by two rigid bodies, the femur and the tibia, and four nonlinear spring elements that represent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Machado, Margarida F. (author)
Other Authors: Flores, Paulo (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/14489
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/14489