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A Low-Cost Novel Design for Knee Orthosis

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In the present study, a torsional spring-based passive knee brace design has been proposed to work as a shock absorber and reduce the load transmitted through the knee joint. The design consisted of thigh and shank support, which forms a hinge joint in the sagittal plane to support the knee extension using a double torsional spring. The brace was modelled considering the anthropometry data of 90th percentile Indian male population. The proposed design was developed in NX 12.0, and later, a finite element analysis (FEA) was carried out in ANSYS Workbench 16.0 to study model deformation. The designed knee brace was found to provide approximately  50% rebound of the load transmitted through the knee joint of a person weighing 80 kg. Further possible modifications in the design were discussed in order to improve the workability of the proposed model.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Himanshu Verma, Abid Ali Khan & Siddharth Bhardwaj

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Verma, H., Khan, A.A., Bhardwaj, S. (2021). A Low-Cost Novel Design for Knee Orthosis. In: Joshi, P., Gupta, S.S., Shukla, A.K., Gautam, S.S. (eds) Advances in Engineering Design. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4684-0_8

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