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Fig. 7.37
a Femoral X-ray plate. b Internal principal trabecular structures found in the femur
bone
Fig. 7.38 Nodal distribution
of the numerical model
presented the results regarding the second and third mechanical cases. Notice, in
all femoral mechanical cases examples, that the formation of principal and sec-
ondary trabecular structures are coherent with the ones presented in Fig.
7.37
a, b.
In order to obtain a closer result to the real proximal femur X-ray plate it is
necessary to simultaneously apply all mechanical cases. In the work of Beaupré
et al. [
14
,
15
] it was originally suggested that the first mechanical case should be
applied assuming 6,000 cycles per day and 2,000 cycles per day for the second and
