BACKGROUND The biomechanical characteristics of midshaft clavicular fractures treated with titanium elastic nail (TEN) is unclear. This study aimed to present a biomechanical finite element analysis of biomechanical characteristics involved in TEN fixation and reconstruction plate fixation for midshaft clavicular fractures. METHODS Finite element models of the intact clavicle and of midshaft ...

This paper deals with local buckling analysis of rectangular functionally graded material plates using finite strip method and based on classical plate theory. The modulus of elasticity of the plate is assumed to vary according to a power-law distribution in terms of the volume fractions of the constituents. The principle of minimum total potential energy is employed to obtain stiffness and sta...

Figure 2. Test Setup showing a locked plate, the multiaxial loading components and the 3D motion capture markers. Comparison of the Fatigue Strength of Fixation Techniques for Supracondylar Femur Fractures McDonald, E; Pekmezci, M; Buckley, J.M; +Kandemir, U +Biomechanical Testing Facility, UCSF/SFGH Orthopaedic Trauma, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA Departmen...

The steel frame reinforced with steel shear wall is a lateral load resisting system and has higher strength and shear performance than the concrete shear wall system. Especially, using corrugated steel plates in these shear wall systems improves out-of-plane stiffness and flexibility in the deformation along the corrugation. In this paper, a cyclic loading test of this steel frame reinforced wi...

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This study was designed to investigate the biomechanics of human head injury with a focus on skull fracture due to side impact loading. Temporo-parietal impact tests were conducted using specimens from ten unembalmed post mortem human subjects. The specimens were isolated at the occipital condyle level, and pre-test x-ray and computed tomography images were obtained. They were prepared with mul...

In this paper, the thermal buckling analysis of a circular plate made of FGM materials with actuator/actuator piezoelectric layers based on neutral plane, classical plate theory and first order shear deformation plate theory is investigated. Reddy's model is assumed for material properties of FGM plate. Plate under the thermal loading, nonlinear temperature rise through the thickness and clampe...