The highly adaptable nature of tissue within the human femur has led to many questions about modeling bone tissue deformation in response to mechanical stresses. There exist no models which adequately describe the mechanical stresses experienced by the human femur. The object of my research was to investigate the methods used to model the stresses in human femoral bone tissue and use vector mechanics to generate a simplified model of stresses in bone. The main method of modeling stress within femoral tissue is the finite element (FE) model, which utilizes computer software to model the stresses at each individual point within the bone. I constructed a model utilizing vector mechanics by examining the deformation of bone tissue in a femur to find the principle axes and considered the stress applied from an estimated body weight corresponding to the examined femur. My model is a simplified version of an FE model which more accurately describes the continuous nature of the stresses within bone tissue. More advanced research programs in FE analysis investigate models for the continuous stresses of the femoral bone tissue unique to an individual.

Application of Vector Mechanics to the Stresses Within Human Cortical and Trabecular Bone Tissue