Development and Finite Element Analysis of a Novel Bent Bone Plate

The main purpose of this paper is to develop a new bone plate implant design with middle bending. The bone plate design is carried out using CAD software and then tested using FEA, where output data are combined and analyzed. The simulation outcome from COMSOL Multiphysics shows that all bone plates experienced various degrees of deformation. The best bone plate would be the newly developed plate with a 10° bending angle in the middle, in comparison with the traditional flat rectangular plate, newly flat developed plate, and other bent plate with various bending angles from material or different simulation modelling. The newly developed plate bent with a 10° bending angle in the middle has an average total displacement of 4.61 nm, average von Mises stress of 0.271 MPa, and average first principal strain of 1.77 × 10−6, making it the best choice for clinical application compared with the other bone plates analyzed.

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