Knowledge Based Engineering for Human Body Modeling and Simulation

2016

This thesis has been written to demonstrate the development of a Knowledge-

Based Engineering (KBE) application of the musculoskeletal system of the human

body. One of the main goals has been to establish what advantages musculoskeletal

modeling could have in a KBE modeling framework.

The model has been created in Adaptive Modeling Language (AML) developed

by Technosoft to show how a multibody model of the human anatomy can be

modeled in a nite element representation. Furthermore, the possibilities of using

the AML models to perform simulations in the multibody software Fedem are

investigated.

In summary, the goal of this thesis is to develop a conceptual AML model

of the human skeleton for future development along with a potential framework

for simulations. The challenge is to model the cross eld of bio-mechanics and

mechanical engineering, to discover possible alternative applications of AM that

could benet musculoskeletal modeling.

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