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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada I
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. MOVING - Grup de Recerca en Modelatge, Interacció i Visualització en Realitat Virtual
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Fortuny Anguera, Gerard
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Rodríguez-Navarro, Javier
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Susín Sánchez, Antonio
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López Cano, Manuel
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Fortuny, G. [et al.]. Simulation and study of the behaviour of the transversalis fascia in protecting against the genesis of inguinal hernias. "Journal of biomechanics", Octubre 2009, vol. 42, núm. 14, p. 2263-2267.
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https://hdl.handle.net/2117/7454
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10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.06.050
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Simulating the muscular system has many applications in biomechanics, biomedicine and the study of
movement in general. We are interested in studying the genesis of a very common pathology: human
inguinal hernia. We study the effects that some biomechanical parameters have on the dynamic
simulation of the region, and their involvement in the genesis of inguinal hernias. We use the finite element method(FEM) and current models for the muscular contraction to determine the deformed fascia transversalis for the estimation of the maximum strain. We analysed the effect of muscular tissue
density,Young’smodulus, Poisson’s coefficient and calcium concentration in the genesis of human inguinal hernia. The results are the estimated maximum strain in our simulations,has a close correlation with experimental data and the accepted commonly models by the medical community.Our
model is the first study of the effect of various biological parameters with repercussions on the genesis of heinguinal hernias.
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Peer Reviewed
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Postprint (published version)
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application/pdf
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T82-4WY5BMR-3&_user=1517299&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000053450&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1517299&md5=a213b0080e31350914d9a4f985b73dc7
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Restricted access - publisher's policy
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Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica aplicada a les ciències
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Finite element methods
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Inguinal hernia
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Hèrnia inguinal
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Elements finits, Mètode dels
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Simulation and study of the behaviour of the transversalis fascia in protecting against the genesis of inguinal hernias
