Figure 2. 3 mm osteotomy: characteristic maps of bending stiffness depending on the fracture fixation stiffness in axial (k_fix,axial) and shear (k_fix,shear) direction after A 6 weeks of healing B 9 weeks of healing C 12 weeks of healing.

Bending stiffness (k_Bend) is given as the percentage of the intact (contralateral) bone bending stiffness. Numbered data points refer to experimental data in Table 3, error bars indicate estimated values (20% error) for unknown shear stiffness of the devices. Letters indicate positions of the exemplary simulation results in Figure 5.