<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Osteoporosis causes the bone mass loss and increased fracture risk. This paper presents the modelling of osteoporotic human lumbar vertebrae L1 by employing finite elements method (FEM). The isolated inhomogeneous vertebral body is composed by cortical out-er shell and cancellous bone. The level of osteoporotic contribution is characterised by reducing the thickness of cortical shell and elasticity modulus of cancellous bone using power-law dependence with apparent density. The strength parameters are evaluated on the basis of von Mises-Hencky yield criterion. Parametric study of osteoporotic degradation contains the static and nonlinear dynamic analysis of stresses that occur due to physiological load. Results of our investigation are presented in terms of nonlinear interdependence between stress and external load.</p></abstract>

Osteoporosis causes the bone mass loss and increased fracture risk. This paper presents the modelling of osteoporotic human lumbar vertebrae L1 by employing finite elements method (FEM). The isolated inhomogeneous vertebral body is composed by cortical out-er shell and cancellous bone. The level of osteoporotic contribution is characterised by reducing the thickness of cortical shell and elasticity modulus of cancellous bone using power-law dependence with apparent density. The strength parameters are evaluated on the basis of von Mises-Hencky yield criterion. Parametric study of osteoporotic degradation contains the static and nonlinear dynamic analysis of stresses that occur due to physiological load. Results of our investigation are presented in terms of nonlinear interdependence between stress and external load.

The Finite Element Analysis of Osteoporotic Lumbar Vertebral Body by Influence of Trabecular Bone Apparent Density and Thickness of Cortical Shell

Faculty of Mechanics, Department of Biomechanics

Faculty of Mechanics, Institute of mechanical Science

Acta Mechanica et Automatica

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Osteoporosis causes the bone mass loss and increased fracture risk. This paper presents the modelling of osteoporotic human lumbar vertebrae L1 by employing...

The Finite Element Analysis of Osteoporotic Lumbar Vertebral Body by Influence of Trabecular Bone Apparent Density and Thickness of Cortical Shell

Publicado en línea: 30 dic 2017

Páginas: 285 - 292

Recibido: 30 may 2016

Aceptado: 27 nov 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ama-2017-0044

Palabras clave
Bone Tissue Elasticity, Finite Element Method, Lumbar Vertebrae, Osteoporosis

© 2017 Oleg Ardatov et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Finite Element Analysis of Osteoporotic Lumbar Vertebral Body by Influence of Trabecular Bone Apparent Density and Thickness of Cortical Shell

Publicado en línea: 30 dic 2017

Páginas: 285 - 292

Recibido: 30 may 2016

Aceptado: 27 nov 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ama-2017-0044

Palabras claveBone Tissue Elasticity, Finite Element Method, Lumbar Vertebrae, Osteoporosis

© 2017 Oleg Ardatov et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Palabras clave
Bone Tissue Elasticity, Finite Element Method, Lumbar Vertebrae, Osteoporosis