AnyBody Newsletter: Bone loss and countermeasures, publications, TLEM model for download
September 03, 2008In this issue:
- AnyBody publications
- The AnyBody Modeling System version 3.0.3 has been released
- Twente Lower Extremity Model (TLEM) now available for download
- Upcoming webcast
- Tips and tricks #14: Create impressive animations
- Bone loss and countermeasures feasability study
- FEM-Simulation in prostheses and implant development seminar
- New version of C3d2Any
- New investors
- TechNet Alliance news
- Events: Meet AnyBody at...
AnyBody publications
JZ Wu, SS Chiou, and CS Pan (2008). Analysis of the effects of stilts walking on joint moments in low extremities.Poster presented at the NACOB2008 conference, Ann Arbor, MI. C Runde, A Czaykowska (2008). Simulation und Virtuelle Realität in der Medizin: Mehrwert und Hilfe für Artz und Patient. Digital Engineering 5, 21-23. The AnyBody Modeling System version 3.0.3 has been releasedThis minor releases which is now available for download from our website (registra- tion is required) includes some bug fixes, updates in Windows Vista compatibility, and data export/output files. The most notable update is in the Mechanical studies (AnyMechStudy and AnyBodyStudy) which have been equipped with new data export feature. This new AnyMechOutputFileForceExport features exports forces and segment data for post calculations with structural analysis tools, e.g. finite element tools. Note: This facility is currently to be regarded as a beta release. The full release notes are included with the software when it is downloaded. Twente Lower Extremity Model (TLEM) now available for downloadThis model which was announced in the previous newsletter is now available for download from the Previous webcasts page together with Sebastian Dendorfer recent webcast presentation on the subject. Note: Registration is required to download from this webpage. The model will subsequently become part of the AnyBody Model Repository. It is therefore currently deemed a pre-release. Completion of the model was done by AnyBody Technology in a feasability project for the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), the technical heart of European Space Agency (ESA). Details about this project are explained in the opposite column in this newsletter. Upcoming webcast
Many previous webcasts are available for download and replay here. Tips and tricks #14: Create impressive animationsThis small file contains the definition of a moving camera using the AnyCamera class. Unlike the classic recorder of the model view, AnyCamera can fly around your model in complex paths. The results are impressive videos appreciated for presentations, exhibitions, etc.
AnyCamera object showing itself in the Model View To use the camera you just have to include this file in the study folder of the Main file and run an analysis. Don’t forget to create a folder “MovingCamera” to store the images, otherwise it will not work. Several strategies for driving the camera are given as examples in the file, but of course you are free to create your own smart trajectories and do the best video ever... Keep us updated on your progress :-) |
| Bone loss and countermeasures feasability study
The aim was to develop and apply AnyScript software models suitable for research in the areas of neuromuscular activity, bone loss and countermeasure development. In order to prove the feasibility to analyze countermeasure exercises with the AnyBody Modeling System two gait applications simulating gait on a treadmill in microgravity with different levels of harness pretension were developed. All forces acting on the tibia were analyzed at one time step during the gait cycle and used transferred to a Finite Element model. The internal stresses and strains in the tibia were computed for normal walking (as shown above) and for the two different harness configurations. Furthermore, a show-case application was developed which simulated a novel counter exercise machine, a rowing machine being developed by ESE GmbH.
The ESE rowing machine model View the final report of the feasability study here. Acknowledgement: We are extremely grateful to ESTEC and ESE GmbH for permission to publish the results of this project despite their preliminary status. FEM-Simulation in prostheses and implant development: Seminar Oct. 8 in Stuttgart, GermanyOur German parner CADFEM GmbH invites to this information day targeted at development engineers working in the field of implant and prostheses design. New version of C3d2AnyA new updated version of this program capable of feeding C3D-file format data into AnyBody has been released by the developer Michael Skipper Andersen. Further information can be found here. New investorsThe Anybody Team is extremely pleased to welcome two new investors on board. They join us to take advantage of the huge market opportunity they see for our technology. In December 2007 The SparVest Foundation came a major shareholder, and recently Sahva Innovation joined as well. TechNet Alliance newsAnyBody Technology is the proud member of TechNet Alliance which is perhaps the world's largest network of engineering solution providers in the world with more than 1800 CAE experts.- dedicated to the application, development, marketing and support of CAE software. View the recent newsletter edition here.Events: Meet AnyBody at...1st i-FAB Congress, Sept. 4-6, Bologna, Italy TCN CAE 2008 & Enginsoft Users' Meeting, Oct. 16-17, Mestre, Italy ANSYS Conference & 26th CADFEM Users' Meeting, Oct. 24-26, Darmstadt, Germany German Congress of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Oct. 22-25, Berlin, Germany - - - o o o - - - Sincerely |
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