..., there is limited knowledge of first metatarsophalangeal (MTP) and first metatarsocuneiform (MTC) joint contact mechanics. Our goal was to develop a framework for FE modeling of the medial forefoot which could accurately predict experimental measurements of first MTP and first MTC joint loading. Simulations...

... blinded and unblinded conditions. Knowledge of detailed knee kinematics, namely anterior-posterior translation, appears to be critical in obtaining accurate force predictions. musculoskeletal model validation total knee replacement instrumented implant contact mechanics Forces at the knee...

... deformable model ( 22 ). Given the conservative estimate of a stable time increment, the deformable model run time was nearly a day (on a 3.0 GHz Pentium 4), while the corresponding rigid body analysis time was reduced to approximately 15 min. The ability to quickly predict kinematics and contact mechanics...

...Sainath Shrikant Pawaskar; John Fisher; Zhongmin Jin Contact detection in cartilage contact mechanics is an important feature of any analytical or computational modeling investigation when the biphasic nature of cartilage and the corresponding tribology are taken into account. The fluid flow...

... successfully incorporated adhesive contact mechanics into the automated procedure we first introduced for Hertzian analysis of AFM data from the indentation of soft, chemically cross-linked gels. The PT approximation of the MD theory has been shown to be readily adaptable to the automation algorithm...

... a series of synergistic strategies into an algorithm that overcomes many of the complications that have previously impeded efforts to automate the fitting of contact mechanics models to indentation data. AFM raster data sets containing up to 1024 individual force-displacement curves and macroscopic...

... elastic moduli mechanical contact adhesion Cytomechanical Model Finite Element Method Hyperelasticity Cell Adhesion Magnetocytometry Contact Mechanics Homogenization In living tissues, cells are exposed to a variety of mechanical stresses and strains related to their environment (e.g...