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Dynamic Failure Properties Of The Porcine Medial Collateral Ligament-Bone Complex For Predicting Injury In Automotive Collisions., Kristen Billiar, Louis Peck, Malcolm Ray

Kristen L. Billiar

The goal of this study was to model the dynamic failure properties of ligaments and their attachment sites to facilitate the development of more realistic dynamic finite element models of the human lower extremities for use in automotive collision simulations. Porcine medial collateral ligaments were chosen as a test model due to their similarities in size and geometry with human ligaments. Each porcine medial collateral ligament-bone complex (n = 12) was held in a custom test fixture placed in a drop tower to apply an axial impulsive impact load, applying strain rates ranging from 0.005 s(-1) to 145 s(-1). The …