Engineering Judgment of Children Bone Fracture

Table 3

Summary of FE results for top crack area.

	FE Results for different loading conditions
σ (MPa), principal and Von-Misses	Lateral 𝑥-direction loading		Lateral 𝑦-direction loading		Lateral 𝑥 and 𝑦-direction and torque loading
	Parallel K-wire fixation	Crossing K-wire fixation	Parallel K-wire fixation	Crossing K-wire fixation	Parallel K-wire fixation	Crossing K-wire fixation
𝜎1	2.54	0.26	1.87	1.21	2.04	1.44
𝜎2	0.71	−0.001	−0.72	−0.46	0.41	0.06
𝜎3	−0.17	−0.74	0.87	−0.67	0.1	−0.09
𝜎	2.39	0.90	2.25	1.79	1.80	1.46