CONSIDERATIONS ON DYNAMIC SOLICITATIONS ON HUMAN LOW LIMB DURING LOCOMOTION

During human locomotion, in every moment of a walk cycle, the loading on support leg or on the two legs is variable and produces different solicitations on the low limb. These progressive forces produce mechanical reactions in concerned articulations. On one hand the forces are dependent on subject’s weight and on its anthropometrical dimensions and on the other hand, the dynamic characteristics are variable on performed movement locally and globally by the low limb and by the whole human body. The knowledge of these solicitations intensity of has a great importance in designing the prosthesis and orthesis that are personalized devices. The present paper presents some results obtained by an authors ’ method as to obtain series of numerical values in different moments of the locomotion and for different subjects in established sections on the length of limb. These results are further used to model the concerned prosthesis and to design it