Lateral bending moment threshold of the knee joint

Soni, Anurag; Chawla, Anoop; Mukherjee, Sudipto; Malhotra, Rajesh

Affiliations

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, INDIA

²Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, INDIA

Abstract and keywords

Three cadaver test studies with varying loading conditions form the basis for current estimation of knee lateral bending moment threshold in dynamic valgus bending. There is a significant difference in the reported values. This paper verifies some of the results using an HBM and determines the knee bending moment threshold for passive loading conditions using explicit simulations. Subsequently, effects of muscle activation on the knee bending moment threshold have been investigated.

Keywords: Knee bending moment threshold; Car-Pedestrian Impact; Finite Element Modeling; Muscle Contraction

Cited Works (5)

Year	Entry
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