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Composite materials are useful as replacement materials for human bone, signifying complicated mechanical characteristics because of many degrees of freedom of design. In the previous work, the authors indicated a numerical approach to force transmission from artificial knee joint (prosthesis) to cancellous bone by finite element analysis and verified the usefulness of composite materials for knee prosthesis. This paper describes a design procedure of replacement materials for the prosthesis based on the theoretical model of cancellous bone structure. Optimum ply construction and configuration of laminate composites for the prosthesis are analysed by considering stress dispersion at the prosthesis/bone interface.
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Hirai, T., Katayama, T., Inoue, N., Yamamoto, H., Fukuzawa, J. (1991). Optimum Structure of Knee Prosthesis Using Laminate Composites Considering the Stress Dispersion at Prosthesis/Bone Interface. In: Marshall, I.H. (eds) Composite Structures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3662-4_27
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