Porous and Lattice Structures for Biodevices with Advanced Properties
Porous and Lattice Structures for Biodevices with Advanced Properties
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具有先进性能的生物器件的多孔和晶格结构
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4614-6789-2_7
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发表时间:
2013
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Juan Carlos Álvarez Elipe
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作者:
A. Lantada;Juan Carlos Álvarez Elipe
During their development, biological systems have to continuously work with a limited amount of energy, and, therefore, their own materials and structures are built trying to maximise the resistance-weight relationship, which leads to finally obtaining porous or hollow materials and structures.Biomimetic design of medical appliances and biodevices can be promoted by using conventional or novel computer-aided design software, staring from solid models and systematically eliminating material from such solid parts, for instance, using Boolean subtractive operations with 3D sphere matrixes or cubes. Hollow biomimetic structures can be also designed in an additive way, firstly by obtaining a lattice cell unit, repeating such cell unit for filling the space and using Boolean intersections using solids with the desired final part external geometry.Using the mentioned approach, materials and structures can even be tailored ad hoc for final application, including precise control of density, Young modulus, Poisson ratio (even with negative values by using auxetic structures) and others, with results very adequate for designing prostheses with mechanical features adapted to those of human body, in order to limit negative phenomena like stress shielding and bone resorption.This chapter provides examples of both approaches, linked to prostheses design and tissue engineering, comparing the advantages and disadvantages of porous, lattice and auxetic structures and discussing main additional resources for simplifying the whole process. Production of these complex porous, hollow and lattice structures is also discussed, as it would have been thought impossible just a couple of decades ago. Novel advances on “layer by layer” or “additive manufacturing technologies” can be used for its automated production, as additionally explained in forthcoming chapters.