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knee implant model

knee implant model

knee implant model

(OP)
Hi all,
does anyone have a finite element model, either Solidworks or ABAQUS, of a knee replacement implant? I need an existing model for a study involving stresses applied to the knee
Thanks



RE: knee implant model

There are several over on Grabcad, both knees and inserts.

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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2011 SP 4.0
HP Pavillion Elite HPE
W7 Pro, Nvidia Quaddro FX580

RE: knee implant model

(OP)
none of them work

RE: knee implant model

There are sites out there where you can buy the model you need. Turbosquid may have it or you could search here.

Jeff Mirisola
Director of Engineering
M9 Defense
My Blog

RE: knee implant model

Have you tried to contact someone at Depuy, Biomet, Medtronic , or any of the other many Orthopaedic companies out there? I know that most of this stuff is proprietary and confidential, but they may be able to help if you sign some sort of agreement.

Boottmills

RE: knee implant model

"none of them work" ?? in what way do they not work for you?

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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2011 SP 4.0
HP Pavillion Elite HPE
W7 Pro, Nvidia Quaddro FX580

RE: knee implant model

(OP)
@SnowCrash The only appropriate one on Grab CAD has invalid geometry when imported to ABAQUS. As yet unresolvable within my team. @boottmills I have had correspondance with DePuy but this make take a few weeks to review. Are there any similar databases such as Turbosquid? thanks

RE: knee implant model

I am not at all familiar with ABAQUS so I do not know what file formats it can use or prefers. However, you might try importing the model into SolidWorks. If you can bring it in successfully into SWX, even if you have to repair it there, then perhaps you can export it into a more suitable format for ABAQUS. For instance, if the model is only available as an IGES file perhaps you can bring it into SWX, repair if needed, and export it as a Parasolid or ACIS or even a different flavor of IGES that is more suitable.

- - -Updraft

RE: knee implant model

Try Zygote. I saw them at SolidWorks World a few years ago and, if I remember correctly, their stuff was pretty good.

Jeff Mirisola
Director of Engineering
M9 Defense
My Blog

RE: knee implant model

Please see the attached picture which highlights the difficult geometry. Auto vertual topology in the meshing module fixes most of the issues. The face highlighted is probably more of a modeling issue with Boss-Extrude4 in SWx. I would use convert entities in sketch8 to get the curved section to match the base geometry. I hope this Helps

Rob Stupplebeen
https://sites.google.com/site/robertkstupplebeen/

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