Table 6 Comparison of the contact pressures of the AC under 1000 N compressive load between the predicted results in this study and published experimental and computational studies.

From: Biomechanical effects of medial osteoarthritis progression and UKA on knee lateral compartment using fibril-reinforced biphasic material in finite element study

Experimental and Computational studies

Contact pressure (MPa)

Medial

Lateral

Experimental

Fukubayashi and Kurosawa51

3.0

3.0

Marzo and Gurske-DePerio52

3.84 ± 1.24

5.08 ± 0.77

Allaire et al.53

5.2

5.5

Computational

Bendjaballah et al.54

Paz et al.55

2.5

5.1

2.7

3.0

This study

3.4

3.2

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