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Simulating the Mechanics of Lens Accommodation via a Manual Lens Stretcher
Published on: February 23, 2018
Centering mechanism for soft contact lenses
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, NY 14627, USA.
Abstract:
A soft contact lens, because of its elasticity, can re-center itself over the cornea after it has been displaced by a blink. In this paper, a potential energy method is used to simulate the centering mechanism. Specifications for commercially available soft contact lenses and realistic eye shapes are used for the examples. With this technique we can compare the centering attributes of different lens and eye geometries.
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