Design of
Prosthetic Foot from Polymer Materials Reinforced by Carbon
Fibers |
Loss of the
lower limb can cause loss of mobility. At all places and at all
times,
efforts have always been made to make up for
such a loss. In this work polymer
composite materials had been used to manufacture
prosthetic foot. Polymer
composite materials PMMA:SR/PUR reinforced by
carbon fibers (CF) were prepared as
suitable material for prosthetic foot then, tensile
characteristics were measured and
determined. Numerical work included
Finite element method (ANSYS-15) was used
to analyze and evaluate deformation, stress
and strain characteristics of a new
designed prosthetic foot, which was treated as three-dimensional
structure composite
polymer material. The experimental and theoretical results were
improved that polymer composite
material can be used for this application.Keywords: Poly methyl
methacrylate (PMMA) , Silicon Rubber
(SR) , Polyurethane Rubber (PUR) ,
Carbon Fibers (CF). |
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