An Investigation into a Gear-Based Knee Joint Designed for Lower Limb Prosthesis

Table 4

Key features of finite-element modeling of knee joint components.

Various features of the FE model
Software used	SOLIDWORKS
Solver type	FFEPlus
Mesh type	Solid mesh
Mesher used	Curvature-based mesh
Jacobian points	16 points
Element type	Triangular (2D)
Maximum element size	6.61898 mm
Minimum element size	1.3238 mm
Mesh quality	High
Remesh failed parts with incompatible mesh	On
Total nodes	95294
Total elements	53492
Maximum aspect ratio	26.613