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 materials can be used for this
application. |
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