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Fig. 4

From: Micromechanical modeling of the contact stiffness of an osseointegrated bone–implant interface

Fig. 4

Variation of the effective contact stiffness \(K_{c}\) obtained with the finite element model, the Lekesiz’s model with crack interaction (I) and the Lekesiz’s model without crack interaction (NI) as a function of the BIC. The roughness amplitude ∆ is equal to 1 µm; the roughness wavelength λ and the bone Young’s modulus Eb are equal to their reference values 80 µm and 2 GPa, respectively

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