Comparative study of two different types of human mandible boundary conditions used in finite element calculations
2013
Abstract
The aim of presented work is to compare two different ways of prescribing a boundary condition of muscles and chewing force. The first variant of boundary condition considers muscle forces and their direction taken from literature.
The second variant of boundary condition conseders muscles modeled as finite elements and connects lower jaw and skull together. Models of living tissues were created on base of cumputed tomography (CT) images and modeled in 3D CAD software SolidWorks.
Calculations were computed in the finite element software ANSYS.