... seconds, but decreased to 33 and 27 for increasing total cycle durations of 10 and 15 seconds, respectively. Once the steady-state response was achieved, 95% of all displacements were within ± 7.42 μ m of the mean displacement, indicating that the displacement response to the cyclic loads was highly...

...J. A. Simo˜es; J. Monteiro; M. A. Vaz The aim of this paper is to describe a new numerical–experimental method to determine the stiffness of a conceptual proximal femoral prototype. The methodology consists of the comparison of the numerical and experimental displacement distributions...