Stress and Strain Distribution in the Bone Surrounding a New Design of Dental Implant: A Comparison with a Threaded Branemark Type Implant

Author(s):  
S E Clift ◽  
J Fisher ◽  
C J Watson

The stress and strain distributions in the bone surrounding a new dental implant, designed specifically for use with a bioactive porous coating and thus having a fully bonded interface to the bone, have been analysed. The new implant geometry was slightly tapered, with deep concentric grooves to allow bone ingrowth and load transfer, and had a parallel cylindrical section at the neck. The results have been compared with stress and strain predictions in the bone surrounding a ‘Branemark type’ threaded implant with a fully bonded interface. Under axial loading both implant types produced similar stress and strain distributions with a higher level of stress in the cortical bone surrounding the neck of the implant. Under lateral loading a high stress concentration was found in the neck region of both implants, but this was lower around the neck of the new design compared with the threaded implant. When the new implant was surrounded by cancellous bone, the reduction in the stress concentration was up to 50 per cent. This reduction should help to reduce fatigue failure and bone resorption in this area under lateral loading.

Author(s):  
Zhibin Fang ◽  
Barbara J. Kralovic ◽  
Yang W. Son ◽  
Danny L. Levine ◽  
Todd S. Johnson

In modern Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA), modular metal-backed acetabular cups consisting of a metal shell backing with porous coatings for fixation and a modular polyethylene liner for articulation are currently the most widely used cementless acetabular cups. Modular acetabular cups give surgeons the flexibility to change femoral head size, liner offset, and liner-lip buildup during hip arthroplasty as well as the ability to change the liner without removing a bone-ingrowth metal shell during revision surgery. However, concerns have been noted with modular metal backed acetabular cups. Poor locking mechanisms have been blamed for backside wear and polyethylene liner dislodgement as well as debris which may lead to osteolysis [1]. In addition, the study of the load transfer around acetabular cups has shown that a stiff metal backing generates high stress peaks around the acetabular rim while it reduces the stresses transferred at the central part of acetabulum potentially causing stress shielding at the dome of acetabulum [2].


Author(s):  
S E Clift ◽  
J Fisher ◽  
B N Edwards

The clinical success of any dental implant is dependent upon the maintenance of good-quality bone supporting it. Previous studies have shown high values of strain around the neck of an implant under lateral loading. These high values may lead to fatigue damage and resorption in lower strength cancellous bone. In this study, the finite element method has been used to study the bone strain distribution around the following implants: (a) an Intoss dental implant, referred to as the ‘standard’ implant; (b) a comparative Branemark implant and (c) a modified Intoss implant with a central flexible post, referred to as the ‘modified’ implant. Three different bone distributions have been investigated under axial and lateral loading: (a) implant surrounded by cortical bone; (b) implant tip supported by cortical bone with a thin layer of cancellous bone along the length and top of the implant; (c) implant tip and top supported by cortical bone with a thin layer of cancellous bone along the remaining length. For the standard implant, similar maximum equivalent strain values were predicted for the bone surrounding a comparable length Branemark-type implant. Modification of the standard implant design to include a flexible central post resulted in a decrease in the maximum von Mises stresses and equivalent strains in the cancellous bone. It is postulated that this will reduce the likelihood of bone fatigue failure and subsequent resorption in this bone. Thus the proposed design change is predicted to be highly beneficial in terms of bone load transfer.


Author(s):  
S E Clift ◽  
J Fisher ◽  
C J Watson

The long-term clinical performance of a dental implant is dependent upon the preservation of good quality bone surrounding the implant and a sound interface between the bone and the biomaterial. Good quality bone is itself dependent upon the appropriate level of bone remodelling necessary to maintain the bone density and the avoidance of bone microfracture and failure. Both processes are governed by the stress and strain distribution zn the hone. In this study, a dental implant which had the same geometry as the Branemark system, but with a bioactive surface coating added to produce a direct bond to the bone, was analysed. Ajinite element stress and strain analysis has been carried out for a range of bone density distributions under axial and lateral loading. The predictions indicated that there was no evidence of strain shielding around the neck of the implant. With lateral loading, high values of von Mises stresses (18 MPa) were predicted around the neck of the implant. A reduction in the elastic modulus of the bone around the neck of the implant by a factor of 16 only produced a twofold reduction in the peak stress. This resulted in stress levels capable of inducing fatigue failure in this much weaker bone. This analysis has demonstrated that it is extremely important to have good guality dense bone around the neck of the implant to withstand the predicted peak stresses of betweeen 9 and 18 MPa. Failure to achieve this ufter implantation and subsequent healing may result in local fatiguefailure and resorption at the nrck upon resumption of physiological loading.


2011 ◽  
Vol 462-463 ◽  
pp. 663-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruslizam Daud ◽  
Ahmad Kamal Ariffin ◽  
Shahrum Abdullah ◽  
Al Emran Ismail

This paper explores the initial potential of theory of critical distance (TCD) which offers essential fatigue failure prediction in engineering components. The intention is to find the most appropriate TCD approach for a case of multiple stress concentration features in future research. The TCD is based on critical distance from notch root and represents the extension of linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) principles. The approach is allowing possibilities for fatigue limit prediction based on localized stress concentration, which are characterized by high stress gradients. Using the finite element analysis (FEA) results and some data from literature, TCD applications is illustrated by a case study on engineering components in different geometrical notch radius. Further applications of TCD to various kinds of engineering problems are discussed.


Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
Cheng-Tang Pan ◽  
Che-Hsin Lin ◽  
Ya-Kang Huang ◽  
Jason S. C. Jang ◽  
Hsuan-Kai Lin ◽  
...  

Intervertebral fusion surgery for spinal trauma, degeneration, and deformity correction is a major vertebral reconstruction operation. For most cages, the stiffness of the cage is high enough to cause stress concentration, leading to a stress shielding effect between the vertebral bones and the cages. The stress shielding effect affects the outcome after the reconstruction surgery, easily causing damage and leading to a higher risk of reoperation. A porous structure for the spinal fusion cage can effectively reduce the stiffness to obtain more comparative strength for the surrounding tissue. In this study, an intervertebral cage with a porous gradation structure was designed for Ti64ELI alloy powders bonded by the selective laser melting (SLM) process. The medical imaging software InVesalius and 3D surface reconstruction software Geomagic Studio 12 (Raindrop Geomagic Inc., Morrisville, NC, USA) were utilized to establish the vertebra model, and ANSYS Workbench 16 (Ansys Inc, Canonsburg, PA, USA) simulation software was used to simulate the stress and strain of the motions including vertical body-weighted compression, flexion, extension, lateral bending, and rotation. The intervertebral cage with a hollow cylinder had porosity values of 80–70–60–70–80% (from center to both top side and bottom side) and had porosity values of 60–70–80 (from outside to inside). In addition, according to the contact areas between the vertebras and cages, the shape of the cages can be custom-designed. The cages underwent fatigue tests by following ASTM F2077-17. Then, mechanical property simulations of the cages were conducted for a comparison with the commercially available cages from three companies: Zimmer (Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., Warsaw, IN, USA), Ulrich (Germany), and B. Braun (Germany). The results show that the stress and strain distribution of the cages are consistent with the ones of human bone, and show a uniform stress distribution, which can reduce stress concentration.


2006 ◽  
Vol 306-308 ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Zheng Yang ◽  
Wanlin Guo ◽  
Quan Liang Liu

Stress and strain singularity at crack-tip is the characteristic of Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM). However, the stress, strain and strain energy at crack-tip may be infinite promoting conflicts with linear elastic hypothesis. It is indicated that the geometrical nonlinear near the crack-tip should not be neglected for linear elastic materials. In fact, the crack-tip blunts under high stress and strain, and the singularity vanishes due to the deformation of crack surface when loading. The stress at crack-tip may still be very high even though the singularity vanishes. The low bound of maximum crack-tip stress is the modulus of elastic in plane stress state, while in plain strain state, it is greater than the modulus of elastic, and will increase with the Poisson’s ratio.


Author(s):  
Basil Mathai ◽  
Sanjay Gupta

Abstract The primary fixation and long-term stability of a cementless femoral implant depend on bone ingrowth within the porous coating. Although attempts were made to quantify the peri-implant bone ingrowth using the finite element (FE) analysis and mechanoregulatory principles, the tissue differentiation patterns on a porous-coated hip stem have scarcely been investigated. The objective of this study is to predict the spatial distribution of evolutionary bone ingrowth around an uncemented hip stem, using a 3D multiscale mechanobiology based numerical framework. Multiple load cases representing a variety of daily living activities, including walking, stair climbing, sitting down and standing up from a chair, were used as applied loading conditions. The study accounted for the local variations in host bone material properties and implant-bone relative displacements of the macroscale implanted FE model, in order to predict bone ingrowth in microscale representative volume elements (RVEs) of twelve interfacial regions. In majority RVEs, 20-70% bone tissue (immature and mature) was predicted after two months, contributing towards a progressive increase in average Young's modulus (1200-3000 MPa) of the inter-bead tissue layer. Higher bone ingrowth (mostly greater than 60%) was predicted in the antero-lateral regions of the implant, as compared to the postero-medial side (20-50%). New bone tissue was formed deeper inside the inter-bead spacing, adhering to the implant surface. The study helps to gain an insight into the degree of osseointegration of a porous-coated femoral implant.


1948 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. White ◽  
LeVan Griffis

Abstract A theoretical investigation of the mechanism of uniaxial compression impact on elastic-plastic materials is described in this paper. The method of analysis is similar in some respects to that previously given for tension impact on such materials. It is concluded that four different kinds of behavior can occur, depending upon the impact velocity. In the lowest velocity range the behavior in compression is similar to that found in tension. In this case stress and strain are propagated from the point of impact as a zone or wave front of ever-increasing length. This type of behavior ends at a velocity corresponding to the “critical” velocity found in tension impact. Within the next higher velocity range, stress and strain are propagated as a shock-type wave, or wave of very small length in which the transition from low to high stress and strain is very abrupt. At still higher impact velocities, there occurs “flowing deformation” in which the material is too weak to maintain coherency. Here there is a steady flow of the material toward and against the hammer, after which it flows in a thin sheet radially outward over the face of the hammer. The final possible state occurs at impact velocities greater than the speed of an elastic wave, so that no disturbance can escape from the hammer into the medium. Here the behavior is essentially that of a fluid, impact force being independent of strength of material.


Author(s):  
Seyed Ali Heydarshahy ◽  
Shivakumar Karekal

Polycrystalline Diamond Compact (PDC) cutters have been popularly used in recent times due to their resistance against mechanical and thermal wear. This paper was focused on interface geometries between the substrate and the diamond table. Various types of interfaces were designed, to investigate how different interface geometries influence distribution of stress and strain under shear loading. The interface geometries examined in this paper included castle interface, dent interface, honeycomb interface and chase interface. Parallel to the interface, shear loading was applied to the top of diamond table to mimic the shear loading component from the rock cutting. To apply the shear loading, two locations were considered for each of the geometries. These locations differed depending on the interface features. Stress and strain distribution and values across different interface geometries were analysed with the aid of 3D Finite Element Method (FEM). The numerical simulations indicated that stress and strain magnitudes and distribution patterns varied in relation to different geometries. Some substrates showed relatively lower plastic strain representing higher durability of the geometries. Concentration of stress and strain distribution showed the areas where one could expect weakness. It also implies that rotating the PDC cutter assemblies around their cylindrical axis helps avoiding fatigue of interface elements in regions of high stress concentration; and thus, preventing premature failure of interface elements.


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