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http://dx.doi.org/10.7742/jksr.2019.13.7.947

Finite Element Analysis of Wrist Orthosis with 3D Printing  

Choi, Hyeun-Woo (Department Biomedical Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
Kang, Inyeong (School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
Noh, Gunwoo (School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
Seo, Anna (Colleage of Medicine, Gachon University)
Lee, Jong-Min (Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology / v.13, no.7, 2019 , pp. 947-953 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to manufacture a wrist brace using a computerized tomography system, clinical design software (MediACE 3D Program), and 3D printer. After acquiring the Dicom file of the upper limb with a computed tomography, the wrist brace was designed using the MediACE 3D Program to create a "stereolithography" file. The designed wrist brace was printed using a 3D printer. To verify the effectiveness of wrist assistive device manufactured by 3D printing technology, the stress distribution of the pressure and orthosis applied to bone and skin is represented by finite element analysis. It is expected that the wrist brace can be manufactured by reinforcing the part where the damage caused by pressure and breakage of the brace frequently occurs with the result of finite element analysis when producing the wrist brace.
Keywords
Wrist brace; Computed tomography(CT); 3D print; FEM(finite element analysis);
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