抄録
Integrity analysis of knee joint involves a detail study of several anatomical parts such as bones, cartilage,tendons, motor strategies (muscle recruitment patterns) etc. The damage of these anatomical parts causes several knee diseases. Particularly, the incidence of knee osteoarthritis (OA) increases with age due to some damages in cartilage. Although acoustic emission (AE) technique has been using in industry for several damage evaluation of materials, the AE signal processing technique has been applied for evaluating the disorderness of knee joint in the present paper as well. The present investigation especially focuses on the dynamical behavior of knee joint for its integrity analysis with several non-destructive imaging conditions. AE signals have been collected from different positions of tibia, patella, and femur for getting sufficient information about the condition of cartilage of knee joint. Data shows the influences of increasing ages on knee problems which may cause pains like osteoarthritis, a vital knee disease of aged people.
