Thesusceptibilityoftheclavicletoinjuryunderscoresitsroleasanimportantloadingpathduringbothfrontalimpactandsideimpactcrashes,sinceclavicleisloadeddirectlybyshoulderbeltinfrontalimpactandthroughshoulderinlateralimpactcrashes.Thisstudyaimstodevelopingaparametricclaviclefiniteelementmodelcapableofsimulatingimpactresponseswithdifferentparameters.Astatisticalclaviclegeometrymodelwasdevelopedbasedoncomputedtomography(CT)scansfrom89subjectsusingprincipalcomponentanalysis(PCA)andmultivariateregressionanalysis.Usingthisstatisticalclaviclegeometrymodelandmeshmorphingmethoddevelopedinthisstudy,aseriesofdetailed3Dclaviclegeometrieswerepredictedbyage,gender,andlengthofthebone,allofwhichshowedstrongeffectsonclaviclegeometry.Afterassigningmaterialpropertiesandvalidationprocess,thisparametricmodeldevelopedinthisstudycanbeusedtoinvestigatetheeffectsofage,genderandlengthatthesametime.
