Evaluation of Stability and Reliability of Motorized Unilateral External Fixator, Designed and Simulated using Finite Element Method to Treat Bone Fractures and Bone Loss

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Alireza Bahramkia ¹ , Mehran Fakhraie ² , Salar Khajehpour ³ , Seyed Mohammad Tahami ⁴ , Raheb Gholami ⁵

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran
3 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran |Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
4 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran |Assistant professor of Orthopedics Bone and Joint Disease Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
5 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran

Received: 2022-10-19 Accepted : 2022-12-09 Published : 2022-12-01

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