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ANALYSIS OF THE MECHANICAL STATE OF THE HUMAN KNEE JOINT WITH DEFECT CARTILAGE IN STANDING

School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin Binshuixi Road No 391, Tianjin 300384, P. R. China

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XUEMEI MA

Tianjin Key Laboratory of the Design & Intelligent Control of the Advanced Mechatronical System, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, P. R. China

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LILAN GAO

Tianjin Key Laboratory of the Design & Intelligent Control of the Advanced Mechatronical System, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, P. R. China

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YUTAO MEN

Tianjin Key Laboratory of the Design & Intelligent Control of the Advanced Mechatronical System, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, P. R. China

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CHUNQIU ZHANG

Tianjin Key Laboratory of the Design & Intelligent Control of the Advanced Mechatronical System, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, P. R. China

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219519416400212Cited by:5 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

Knee joint is the hub of human lower limb movement and it is also an important weight-bearing joint, which has the characteristics of load-bearing and heavy physical activities. So the knee joint becomes the predilection site of clinical disease. Once people have the cartilage lesions, their daily life will be affected seriously. The simulation of the knee joint lesions could provide help for clinical knee-joint treatment. Based on the complete model of knee joint, this paper use the finite element method to analyze the biomechanical characteristics of the defective knee joint. The results of simulation show that the stress of cartilages when standing on single leg is approximately doubled than that of standing on two legs. When standing on single leg, the 8-mm diameter osteochondral defect in femur cartilage can generate maximal changes in von-mises stress (by 36.74%), while the von-mises stress on tibia cartilage with 8-mm defect increase by 87%. The stress distribution of cartilages is almost the same, there is no obvious stress concentration when in defect. Increasing the defective diameter, femoral cartilage, meniscus and tibial all present an increasing trend towards stress. When increasing the applied load, the stress of the femoral cartilage, the meniscus and the tibial cartilage all increased.

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