Engineering Mechanics

Proceedings Vol. 25 (2019)

ENGINEERING MECHANICS 2019

Copyright © 2019 Institute of Thermomechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

 

Sejda F., Frydrýšek K., Pleva L., Pompach M., Litner R.:
pages 331 - 334, full text

This article deals with the strength analysis of an intramedullary nail (internal fixator), used in traumatology/orthopaedic for a broken heel bone (calcaneus). The application focuses on the unique miniinvasive C-NAIL produced by the company Medin a.s. (Nové město na Moravě, Czech Republic). The focus is on types of calcaneal fractures and the possibilities of treating them, on the analysis of calcaneus load and the creation of a CAD-FEM model of the calcaneus from CT images (design – the engineering point of view). Consequently, an analysis is carried out of the peripheral conditions including loading. The calculations were done on solid („healthy“) bones and bones cut into individual bone fragments (imitating broken bones), using the finite element method in the Ansys Workbench application.

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