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Determination And Studying Of Stress Distribution In Various Ankle-Foot Orthoses : Experimental Stress Analysis, Rong Feng
Theses
Ankle-Foot Orthosis (AFO) is prescribed to constrain and inhibit abnormal motion such as "drop foot" due to stroke. Most orthoses were hand-made by orthotists according to their own experience. However, some types of AFO were easy to fatigue (out of their functional capabilities) than others due to regular usage. In order to improve the design and usage, quantitative stress analysis of different types of orthoses is needed. The objective of this project is to obtain experimental data which will confirm the results obtained from previous Finite Element Analysis (FEA)[1]. In addition, the experimental analysis is extended to obtain …