Prosthetic Knee Failure Analysis

Skills used

  • MATLAB
  • SolidWorks
  • ANSYS
  • FMEA

Goal

This project was designed to create a situation where a company reaches out to an engineering consulting team requesting validation of their design. They propose an upper block for a prosthetic knee and the team is tasked with determining its safety factor and if the knee could be replaced with an equivalent truss structure.

Design Report