Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 3 The results of four models analyzed in terms of sliding distance, gap formation, resultant displacement, frictional stress, and pressure
FEA output | TTO—FEA-001 | TTO—FEA-002 | TTO—FEA-003 | TTO—FEA-004 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Upper surface | Lower surface | Upper surface | Lower surface | Upper surface | Lower surface | Upper surface | Lower surface | |||
Maximum sliding distance | (mm) | 0.093 | 0.237 | 0.124 | 0.241 | 0.162 | 0.104 | 0.084 | 0.173 | |
Average sliding | (mm) | 0.165 | 0.182 | 0.133 | 0.128 | |||||
Maximum gap | (mm) | 1.491 | 0.613 | 1.470 | 0.557 | 1.476 | 0.516 | 1.481 | 0.572 | |
Average gap | (mm) | 1.052 | 1.013 | 0.996 | 1.025 | |||||
Maximum resultant displacement (entire model) | (mm) | 0.319 | 0.307 | 0.333 | 0.245 | |||||
Stiffness of the entire model | N/mm | 5185 | 5387 | 4967 | 6751 | |||||
Maximum frictional stress | (MPa) | 25.094 | 3.802 | 23.285 | 3.307 | 19.287 | 2.888 | 21.158 | 3.255 | |
Maximum pressure | (MPa) | 54.552 | 8.264 | 50.619 | 7.188 | 41.928 | 6.279 | 45.996 | 7.076 | |