Fig. 5From: Biomechanical properties of five different currently used implants for open-wedge high tibial osteotomyScheme of the applied vertical sinusoidal force loading (load-controlled) (Maas et al. 2013). After N = 20000 cycles the upper force was increased stepwise by 160 N until failure. The loading frequency was constant and set to 5 HzBack to article page