SIMULATION OF FALL LOADING USING A PROBABILISTIC SHAPE-BASED FINITE ELEMENT MODEL OF HUMAN FEMURS

摘要

The efficient construction of finite element models that accurately represent the complex morphology of biological structures is a major challenge. Typically, the model constructed is a representation of a single patient and, in order to investigate a different individual, the majority of the mesh construction process must be repeated. In the present study, methodology based on statistical shape modeling was developed and implemented to efficiently reconstruct high-fidelity finite element (FE) models incorporating the complex geometry and material property distribution determined from imaging data for a set of human femurs and to investigate the effect of geometry and material property variations on FE model predictions.