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The main objective of this paper is to present a study of the osteoarthritis phenomena based on a complex three-dimensional model of the human knee joint, using CT cross sections. For that purpose, we used Ansys Workbench software which allows defining models with a high level of difficulty including complex 3D shapes. The virtual biomechanical system of the human knee containing bones, ligaments, menisci, cartilage is studied using the finite elements method. To investigate the role of the articular cartilage in the developing of the osteoarthritis and to analyze and simulate the biomechanical behavior of knee joint, a non-linear analysis was performed. The non-linearities are due to the presence of the contact elements modeled between components surfaces. This paper shows the Von Mises stress distribution and the strain maps found in menisci, in femoral cartilage and in tibial cartilage, applying a load of 800 N, 0º in flexion for healthy knee and for three different cases of 10º physiological varus knee. The behavior of the virtual knee joint can give important information which can be used in the fields of medicine sciences and biomedical robotics.
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This work was supported by the strategic grant POSDRU/CPP107/DMI1.5/S/78421, Project ID78421 (2010), co-financed by the European Social Fund within the S O Program Human Resources Development 2007–2013.
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Tarnita, D., Catana, M., Tarnita, D.N. (2014). Nonlinear Analysis of Osteoarthritis Process in Virtual Human Knee Joint. In: Visa, I. (eds) The 11th IFToMM International Symposium on Science of Mechanisms and Machines. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01845-4_23
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