A musculoskeletal finite element model of rat knee joint for evaluating cartilage biomechanics during gait
Fig 5
Average contact pressure, maximum principal strain, maximum principal stress, and fluid pressure in the contact area of the medial (a, c, e, and g) and lateral (b, d, f, and h) tibial cartilage surfaces during the stance phase of gait.
The contact stresses were similar to a previous study published by Gardner-Morde et al. [22] where average contact stresses in the medial and lateral compartment at the reference loading state were 0.4 and 0.1 MPa, respectively.