The numerical analysis was performed using the ABAQUS® programme.
Numerical analysis was performed using the commercial finite element method software DEFORM-2D (Scientific Forming Technologies Corp., Columbus, OH, USA).
Numerical analysis was performed using BioNumerics software (Applied Maths, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium).
A 3D numerical analysis is performed using the finite element method.
For this purpose, a 3D numerical analysis is performed using the finite element method.
The numerical analysis is performed using a three-dimensional finite element code based on the microplane model.
A second numerical perturbation analysis was performed using this new restricted n = 3 parameter space as a baseline.
A regression analysis was performed using the statistical software Stata (StataCorp, College Station, TX) and GraphPad Prism (GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA) to evaluate correlations between numerical variables.
Simultaneously, a numerical analysis was performed by the finite element method using the Abaqus® software.
Numerical data were expressed as mean±S.D. Statistical analysis was performed using the paired Student's t-test considering the variances unequal.
