Anatomical hip model for the mechanical
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Siegfried Derler; A.B. Spierings; K.-U. Schmitt
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Article
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2005
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Elsevier Science
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English
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An anatomical hip model has been developed to simulate the impact load on the hip of a falling person wearing a hip protector. The hip consists of an artificial pelvis made of aluminium, linked by a ball-and-socket joint to an anatomically shaped steel femur (thigh bone). The femur is embedded in si