Kevin M,
For general practice it would be more of an issue of time and marrying technologies (the main cost would be the FEA software). It wouldn't really be an issue for a university to collaborate on an FEA project with a software company. Any relatively new pc can run the software. A collegue of mine has Ansys on his 2.4Ghz pentium machine and runs it alongside other applications. So we've got the power, but we need the tool. I don't profess to be a major authority on FEA, I'm just an interested pod.
Getting back to the issue I raised before and taking your comments on board, an FEA model would need to be based on real measurements of stress, shape, movement, general material properties, etc.. of all foot structures. It may be possible to develop an individual model based on a single 'real-world' foot, but like all other models, an approximation at a 'normal' foot would take many more trials.
Respectfully,
Lee
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