Simulation of a Knee Joint Replacement During a Gait Cycle Using Finite Element Analysis and Verifying the Results by Experimental Knee Simulator

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Shirdel, Hadi | 2014

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 47304 (08)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Advisor(s): Firoozbakhsh, Keikhosrow; Farahmand, Farzam; Narimani, Roya
Abstract:
In knee injuries that may not have the ability to improve and knee function is disturbed, usually total knee replacement surgery is performed. There are several ways in order to study the effect of different parameters and how the parameters affect the total knee disability, including removal from the patient body, laboratory studies and computer simulations. Study of damaged prosthesis from viewpoint of availability and laboratory ones from cost and duration of time encounter with problems, so the computer simulation have priority. In this project, a dynamic model of a total knee prosthesis during gait cycle has been developed with the help of finite element software. In this project, loading and boundary conditions data have been taken from the existing standards so that the results will be comparable with experimental results based on these data. After preparing the model, a simple static simulator that is capable of measuring various parameters of the artificial knee joint was made
Keywords:
Dynamics Models ; Total Knee Replacement (TKR) ; Finite Element Method ; Knee Prosthesis ; Static Simulator ; Gait Cycle

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