Output details
15 - General Engineering
Staffordshire University
Article title
A multi-directional fracture stiffness model to determine the principal stiffness properties of a healing human tibia
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Journal Of Engineering In Medicine - Part H
Article number
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Volume number
227
Issue number
10
First page of article
1125
ISSN of journal
09544119
Year of publication
2013
Number of additional authors
3
Additional information
About 400 / million people suffer a tibial fracture that requires operative intervention. This interdisciplinary research was based upon our previous work examining the properties of healing callus in fractured tibia to provide a better assessment of progression to healing. It was aimed at identifying whether callus can be modelled to determine stiffness properties similar to those used to model bearings as in Ogrodnik 1 and 2. In this manner maxima and minima may be obtained. This initial study confirmed the hypothesis and will, now, lead to a new non-linear visco-elastic model of the callus mass.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
