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Biomechanics of Natural Fiber Green Composites as Internal Bone
Plate Grafted |
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The main
purpose of this paper was to introduce a new series of green
composites as a plate for bone fracture applications. These
green composites offer many advantages over traditional
composites and biocomposites based on synthetic polymers. In
current work, the new green composites bone plate based on two
types of biopolymers involves biopolymethylmethacrylate
thermoplastic material and bioepoxy thermosetting material
reinforced with randomly oriented corn natural fibers at
different weight fractions (5, 10, 15, and 20%) were fabricated
by hand lay–up technique. Four forms of green composites ;
treated and untreated corn biopolymethylmethacrylate groups A
and B respectively, treated and untreated corn bioepoxy groups C
and D respectively were investigated. The mechanical properties
were tested (tensile, compression, and compact tension) under a
flow of phosphate buffered saline PBS at 37 • C has been
reported. The experimental results showed that the green
composites group A have the best mechanical properties than
other groups under PBS condition while the green composites
group D have the weak mechanical properties due to plastization
by immersion in PBS solution. Also, the analysis of femur bone
fracture plates carried out by applying finite element method
FEM using the ANSYS 16 software package. |
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