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Determination Of Effects Of Stress On Polymeric Ankle-Foot Due To Weight Change: Experimental Stress Analysis, Lin Yu Wang

Theses

Ankle-Foot Orthoses (AFOs) are devices that assist patients who sustained an abnormal motion at the ankle joint of the foot due to traumatic injury and stroke, etc. The objective of this project is to determine the stress patterns in AFOs under different loading conditions such as weights and genders. Thus, the location of failure can be predicted, and a redesign process can be developed. Furthermore, those experimental results will be used to verify the results obtained from the previous Finite Element Analysis (FEA) ^[11,10]. Results from the experiment showed a significant stress change due to load change. This stress …