This project was completed in 2018 as part of my postgraduate studies in Biomedical Engineering.
Context: Modeling and simulating femoral neck fractures using Finite Element Analysis.
Finite element Analysis of femoral neck fractures using FEBio Suite and OpenSim
Assignments :
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Searching and reading Scientific bibliography about FEA and femoral neck fractures simulations
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Extracting materials properties of cortical bone (Density, Young Modulus, Poisson's Ratio)
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Estimation of join reaction forces on OpenSim, using a musculoskeletal model and the gait dataset which were provided
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Specifying boundaries conditions on FEBio
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Applying “Boundary load” on FEbio
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Running the simulation and finding the forces loading to the femur during walking (maximum stress, Pressure points, Maximal Stress Distribution)
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Compering different models (Normal bone, normal with lower density, Osteoporosis)
Software: OpenSim, FEBio suite, Libre Office
Methods: Modeling and Simulation, Inverse Kinematics
OS: Linux-Ubuntu & Windows 10
Achievements: Successful implementation of all tasks. However the results of the numbers we took for unknown reason were not realistic according to official literature (probably the mesh file had a bug or less possible there was wrong convention with the values input and the mesh file that was used).
*Rest files due to their large size, can not be uploaded to github