Abstract: Torsion as a cause of failure in the lumbar intervertebral joint was studied using a three-dimensional nonlinear finite element model. The role of facets and ligaments as well as the stress ...

Abstract: For a cantilever beam-column with one end built-in and the free end subjected to an oblique-eccentric arbitrary concentrated force, general formulas to produce failure were derived. The original ...

Abstract: The elastic Young’s modulus and shear modulus of bone-particle impregnated polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) has been measured experimentally at room temperature as a function of bone particle ...

Abstract: The quasi-static and dynamic bending responses of the human mid-lower cervical spine were determined using cadaver intervertebral joints fixed at the base to a six-axis load cell. Flexion bending ...