• 1. College of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300222, P.R. China;
  • 2. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Integrated Design and On-line Monitoring for Light Industry & Food Machinery and Equipment, Tianjin 300222, P.R. China;
LI Haiyan, Email: lihaiyan@tust.edu.cn
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Finite element (FE) model of thorax with high biofidelity is one of the most important methods to investigate thoracic injury mechanism because of the absence of pediatric cadaver experiments. Based on the validated thorax finite element model, the FE models with equivalent muscles and real geometric muscles were developed respectively, and the effect of muscle biofidelity on thoracic injury was analyzed with reconstructing pediatric cadaver thorax impact experiments. The simulation results showed that the thoracic impact force, the maximum displacement and the maximum von-Mises stress of FE models with equivalent muscles were slightly greater than those from FE models with real geometric muscles, and the maximum principal strains of heart and lung were a little lower. And the correlation coefficient between cadaver corridor and FE model with real muscles was also greater than that between cadaver corridor and FE model with equivalent muscles. As a conclusion, the FE models with real geometric muscles can accurately reflect the biomechanical response of thorax during the impact.

Citation: CUIShihai, SHANLeilei, LIHaiyan, LUWenle, HELijuan, RUANShijie. Effect of muscle biofidelity on thoracic impact biomechanical response of a six-year-old child using finite element method. Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2017, 34(1): 41-47. doi: 10.7507/1001-5515.201606045 Copy

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