The Effect of Knee Flexion Angle on Contact Stress of Total Knee Arthroplasty

Abstract

The effect of flexion angle on contact stress of the knee joint still open to the debate since lack of proof shown that flexion angles does effect the contact stress of Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA). Thus the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of different flexion angle on contact stress of TKA via finite element method. The TKA is simulated using ANSYS Workbench and the applied loads are 2200 N, 3200 N and 2800 N. The Finite element Analysis (FEA) results for maximum stress of current and proposed designed were then compared. For the new proposed design, the maximum stress for 15° is 12.2 MPa, 45° is 23.6 MPa and 60° is 22.5 MPa which is lower than current design. Thus, it can be concluded that the new proposed design better than current design in term of contact stress. While, the different flexion angle do gives an impact on the performance of the TKA.