NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF DISTAL JOINTS OF EQUINE LIMB - A PILOT STUDY OF THE PREDICTION OF OVERLOAD INJURIES IN HORSES

K. Jankowski¹, K. Skierbiszewska², M. Pawlikowski¹, B. Turek², T. Jasiński², M. Domino²

¹Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; ²Warsaw University of Life Science, Poland

APPLICATION OF MECHANOBIOLOGICAL FRACTURE HEALING SIMULATIONS TO PEDIATRIC FRACTURES

A. Lipphaus^1,2, S. Hamad³, R. Remus⁴, R.-B. Tröbs⁵, U. Witzel¹

¹Biomechanics Research Group, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; ²Clinic of Pediatric Surgery, St.-Mary’s Hospital Witten, Germany; ³Biomechanics Lab, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany; ⁴Chair of Product Development, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; ⁵Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Vincenz Hospital Paderborn, Germany

NONINVASIVE ASSESSMENT OF EARLY TENDON DAMAGE IN AN IN VIVO OVERLOAD MODEL USING HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING

P. Chainani^1,2, D. Yeritsyan², N. Nafisi^1,2, M. V. Velasquez-Hamerle², A. Nazarian^1,2

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, United States of America; ²Boston University

DOES A REDUCTION IN BODY WEIGHT REDUCE JOINT FRICTION IN VIVO?

J. N. Zierke, A. Bender, G. N. Duda, P. Damm

Julius Wolff Institute, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

PROBABILITY OF FRACTURE GIVEN A FALL DERIVED FROM BIOFIDELIC FEMS COMPARED TO T-SCORE AND FRAX

D. Jha^1,2, Y. Zhou¹, A. D Praveen¹, A. Baker², A. Fung², V. S. Cheong^1,3, P. Gupta⁴, E. L Lamoureux^4,5, N. Hong⁶, Y. Rhee⁶, H. Pálsson⁷, S. J Ferguson^1,2, B. Helgason^1,2

¹Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore; ²ETH-Zürich, Switzerland; ³University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; ⁴Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore; ⁵Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore; ⁶Yonsei University College of Medicine, South Korea; ⁷University of Iceland, Iceland

A SIMPLIFIED METHOD FOR DETERMINING HIP JOINT CENTRE POSITION FOR MOTION CAPTURE

E. B. O'Regan, D. Dawson, K. Bryan

Munster Technological University, Ireland

TRIBOLOGICAL DEGRADATION OF THE ACETABULUM IN PRECLINICAL STUDIES: GEOMETRY VERSUS MATERIAL

R. Leonardo-Diaz, T. Rayment, S. Williams

Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS AND HYPERELASTIC MODELLING OF PORCINE GROWTH PLATES UNDER COMPRESSION

L. Hucke^1,2,3, G. Q. Teixeira⁴, A. Seitz⁴, A. J. Gámez², N. Hammer^3,5,6, A. Wittek¹, J. A. Niestrawska³

¹Frankfurt University of Applied Siences, Germany; ²University of Cádiz, Spain; ³Medical University Graz, Austria; ⁴Ulm University Medical Center, Germany; ⁵University of Leipzig, Germany; ⁶Fraunhofer IWU, Germany

SYMMETRIC NORMALIZATION ALGORITHM FOR ESTIMATING PHYSIOLOGICAL STRAIN IN BONES

P. Henyš¹, E. Dall’Ara³, S. Martelli²

¹Technical University of Liberec; ²Queensland University of Technology; ³University of Sheffield

VERIFICATION OF MICRO-FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS: CONVERGENCE ANALYSES ON TRABECULAR BONE MORPHOLOGY, APPARENT ELASTIC MODULUS, AND VON MISES STRESS

M. Zojaji, A. Correa Belloso, M. Van Klei, B. Yang, H. Ploeg

Queen's University, Canada

MICRO-FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING OF HUMAN TRABECULAR BONE CORES: A CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS

M. Zojaji, A. Correa Belloso, M. Van Klei, H.-L. Ploeg

Queen's University, Canada

HOW LESIONS WITH AXIAL-TRANSVERSE CORTICAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE THE FEMORAL SHAFT AFFECT FRACTURE RISK

A. Rizvi¹, C. E. Scott^2,3, S. Seth⁴, A. H. Simpson³, P. Pankaj¹

¹School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; ²Edinburgh Orthopaedics, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK; ³Edinburgh Medical School, The University of Edinburgh, UK; ⁴School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, UK

STRESS AND STRAIN PREDICTION IN PEDIATRIC FEMORA: WHAT ARE THE INFLUENCES OF GEOMETRY AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES?

S. Kämpf¹, Y. Xu², J. Choisne²

¹ETH Zurich, Switzerland; ²Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

ESTIMATING ACTIVITY-SPECIFIC FRACTURE RISK IN FEMORA WITH METASTATIC LESIONS USING FINITE ELEMENT MODELS

L. Scheuring, D. H. Pahr, A. Synek

TU Wien, Austria

INVESTIGATING WATER'S ROLE IN FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR: A NOVEL HIGH-THROUGHPUT METHOD FOR ASSESSING HUMIDITY EFFECTS

M. Birocco¹, J. Michler², J. Schwiedrzik¹

¹Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics, Dübendorf, Switzerland; ²Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, Thun, Switzerland

INVESTIGATING BONE MICROSTRUCTURE WITH 3D ATUM-SEM-BASED IMAGING: IMPLICATIONS FOR PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS

V. Vistoso, T. Ferté, O. Ersen, A. Carradó

CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, France

EXPLORING FLEXOELECTRIC PHENOMENA IN HUMAN BONE THROUGH A MICROMORPHIC CONTINUUM MODELING FRAMEWORK

A. Titlbach¹, A. Papastavrou¹, A. McBride², P. Steinmann^2,3

¹Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, Germany; ²University of Glasgow, UK; ³Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

DEVELOPMENT OF REAL-TIME BIOFEEDBACK SYSTEM FOR UPPER EXTREMITY EXERCISES USING MUSCULOSKELETAL MODEL-BASED ANALYSIS

K. Šileikytė, J. Griškevičius

Vilniaus Gedimino Technical University, Lithuania

INSTAFEM: AN OPEN-SOURCE PYTHON LIBRARY FOR INVERSE STATICS FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS

F. Galbusera

Schulthess Clinic, Switzerland

DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTIGATION OF FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION FOR THE HUMAN ELBOW JOINT

J. Kasprzyk¹, M. Rychlik¹, R. Roszak¹, M. Ziegenhorn², J. Nowotny³

¹The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Poznan University of Technology, Poland; ²The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Energy Systems, Institute of Lightweight Design and Value-added Management, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany; ³University Center for Orthopedics, Trauma and Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus TU Dresden, Germany

AN IN VITRO BIOMECHANICAL TEST RIG FOR RIB OSTEOSYNTHESIS EVALUATION CONSIDERING NEGATIVE INTRATHORACIC PRESSURE

M. Martinovic, M. D. Hülskamp, M. Klimek, C. Kittl, S. Roßlenbroich, M. J. Raschke, O. Riesenbeck

University Hospital Münster, Germany

SMART SHOE FOR LOAD MONITORING AND INJURY PREVENTION

I. Rodrigues¹, J. Dias¹, J. Cotrim¹, A. Guerra¹, N. Ramião¹, T. Machado², P. Castro-Martins³, A. Marques³, M. Vaz¹, B. Areias¹

¹INEGI, Portugal; ²AMF-Safety Shoes, Portugal; ³ISEP, Portugal

OPTIMISING DIGITAL VOLUME CORRELATION ANALYSIS ACROSS DIFFERENT MUSCULOSKELETAL TISSUES

A. L. Parmenter^1,2, C. Disney³, A. Sharma^1,5, F. Bosi¹, B. K Bay⁴, P. D Lee¹

¹University College London, United Kingdom; ²Research Complex at Harwell, United Kingdom; ³Diamond Light Source, United Kingdom; ⁴School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University, USA; ⁵Royal Veterinary College, United Kingdom

THE EFFECT OF FRACTURE LEVEL ON THE OVERLOADING OF DISTAL SCREWS IN INTRAMEDULLARY TIBIAL NAILS

J. L. M. Thiesen¹, K. E. Kojima², S. Toride³, R. Prado¹, E. A. Fancello¹, C. R. d. M. Roesler¹

¹Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil; ²University of São Paulo, Brazil; ³Toride Implants Industry and Commerce, Brazil

A FRAMEWORK FOR REPLACING MEASURED GROUND REACTION FORCES WITH ANN-PREDICTED FORCES FOR JOINT MOMENT ESTIMATION IN OPENSIM

M. Abdullah¹, A. A. V. Hulleck¹, R. Katmah¹, N. Arjmand², K. Khalaf¹, M. El-Rich¹

¹Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; ²Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

MULTISCALE MODELING OF THE SKELETAL MUSCLE: AN ORIGINAL APPROACH OF PERIODIC REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS

A. LOUMEAUD^1,2, P. POULETAUT², S. F BENSAMOUN², D. GEORGE¹, S. CHATELIN¹

¹University of Strasbourg, CNRS, Inserm, ICube UMR 7357, Strasbourg, France; ²Université de Technologie de Compiègne, CNRS, Biomechanics and Bioengineering, Compiègne, France

MODELLING PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE STRENGTH LOSS WITH AGEING AND SARCOPENIA

K. P. Nowakowska-Lipiec¹, H. Zadoń¹, R. Michnik¹, A. Nawrat-Szołtysik²

¹Department of Biomechatronics, Silesian University of Technology, Poland; ²Department of Physiotherapy in Internal Medicine, The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education, Poland

BEYOND FIBERS: THE ROLE OF WATER AND PRESSURE IN SKELETAL MUCLE DYNAMICS

E. Henández-Alhambra¹, L. Teresi³, R. van der Sman⁴, J. Grasa^1,2

¹Aragón Institute of Engineering Research (I3A), Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain; ²Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBER-BBN), Spain; ³Università degli studi Roma Tre, Italia; ⁴Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands

COMPARISON OF EMG-DRIVEN APPROACHES IN DETECTING NEUROMUSCULAR CONTROL STRATEGIES IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE

G. Rigoni¹, M. Dalle Vacche¹, F. Spolaor¹, D. Volpe², Z. Sawacha¹

¹Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; ²Fresco Parkinson Center, Villa Margherita,Vicenza, Italy

ASSESSING UNPHYSIOLOGICAL MUSCULOSKELETAL MODEL DEFORMATION AND CALIBRATION USING MUSCLE-TENDON LOAD LIMITS

L. V. Nölle¹, I. Wochner², M. Hammer¹, S. Schmitt^1,3

¹Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany; ²Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tübingen, Germany; ³Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science (SC SimTech), University of Stuttgart, Germany

DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING AN ARTISYNTH MULTIBODY MODEL FOR GAIT ANALYSIS

A. Denk¹, J. E. Lloyd², D. Raab¹, W. Kowalczyk¹

¹University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; ²University of British Columbia, Canada

MUSCULOSKELTAL MODELING OF THE SCOLIOTIC SPINE:SENSITIVITY OF JOINT LOADING TO JOINT CENTER POSITION

P. Bähler^1,2, S. Conticello^1,2, P. Büchler², S. Schmid^1,3

¹Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; ²University of Bern; ³University of Basel

AUTOMATED SYNCHROTRON TOMOGRAPHY-BASED INVERSION PIPELINE FOR ESTIMATING ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF RAT VERTEBRAL ENDPLATE FINITE ELEMENT MODELS

J. Chen¹, A. Parmenter^1,2, A. Sharma¹, E. Newham³, E. Bele¹, S. Marussi², A. A Pitsillides⁴, C. Mitchell⁵, H. S Gupta³, P. D Lee^1,2

¹Mechanical Engineering, University College London, London, UK; ²Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK; ³School of Engineering and Materials Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; ⁴Department of Veterinary Basic Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK; ⁵Medical, Molecular and Forensic Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia

LIQUID CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES REGULATE HIERARCHICAL BONE-LIKE MINERALISATION

J. Chen¹, M. Birchall², A. MacRobert¹, W. Song¹

¹UCL Centre for Biomaterials in Surgical Reconstruction and Regeneration, Department of Surgical Biotechnology, Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London, London, NW3 2PF, UK; ²UCL Ear Institute and Royal National Ear Nose and Throat and Eastman Dental Hospitals, University College London Hospitals, 47-49 Huntley St, London, WC1E 6DG, UK