title: Experimental and numerical approach to chosen types of mandibular fractures cured by means of miniplate osteosynthesis.
abstract: The paper presents experimental and numerical analyses of two cases of mandibular corpus fractures cured by means of miniplate implantation. In the laboratory tests, strain gauges and electronic speckle pattern interferometry methods were used, while in the numerical simulations finite element analyses were applied. The aim of such a combined approach was to verify a correctness of the numerical model applied with regard to the assumptions and simplifications which had been done when creating FEM for human mandible: healthy, broken and stabilized with miniplate implants.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Mechanics, Cracow University of Technology, Al. Jana Pawła II 37, 31-864 Kraków, Poland. mkromka@mech.pk.edu.pl
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kromka
authors.forename: Grzegorz
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Milewski
mesh_terms: D001860:Bone Plates; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004548:Elasticity; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D020342:Finite Element Analysis; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008337:Mandibular Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D008904:Miniaturization; D008954:Models, Biological; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome