Comparison of specimen-specific vertebral body finite element models with experimental digital image correlation measurements.

Gustafson, Hannah M; Cripton, Peter A; Ferguson, Stephen J; Helgason, Benedikt · J Mech Behav Biomed Mater · 2017

biomechanical · Level V

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to load cadaveric vertebral bodies (n=6) in compression and compare the response, measured with digital image correlation (DIC) on the cortex, with the predicted response from specimen-specific vertebral finite element (FE) models. Five modulus-density relationships were evaluated, and for the strongest modulus-density relationship, the correlation between the DIC and FE displacements had R<sup>2</sup> values from 0.75 to 0.93. The stiffnesses derived from the DIC measurements were strongly predicted by the FE stiffnesses (R<sup>2</sup>=0.90). DIC provides full-field measurements of surface displacement, eliminating the influence of system compliance, for validation of specimen-specific models.

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