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Passive Prosthetic Ankle and Foot with Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic: Biomechanical Design, Simulation, and Optimization

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Biomaterials in Orthopaedics and Bone Regeneration

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This chapter dedicates an innovative design, analysis, and computational optimization for a novel passive prosthetic ankle and foot 1.0 and 2.0. The glass fiber reinforced plastic material is used as for the proposed prosthesis. The biomechanical design is inspired by the concept of compliant mechanism and bioengineering. Several shapes and topology of the ankle–foot are developed. Then, simulations are conducted to monitor the structural behaviors and dynamic characteristics. Three basic phases, heel strike, midstance, and toe-off, of the prosthesis 1.0 and 2.0 are analyzed by finite element method. The results found that the maximum Von Mises stresses are concentrated on the shank at toe-off. To improve the performance, a hybrid integration of Taguchi method, response surface methodology, and differential evolution algorithm is developed. The Taguchi method is used to construct the number of numerical experiments, and the response surface methodology is utilized to establish the input factors and the output strain energy. Based on the well-established mathematical model, the differential evolution algorithm is applied to the best geometric parameters of the ankle–foot. The result showed that the optimal strain energy is approximately improved 155% compared to initial design. In addition, the optimal energy strain is about 93.914 mJ. The ankle–foot 1.0 and 2.0 can be monolithically manufactured by using 3D printing. The proposed prosthetic ankle–foot may be appropriate for an amputee’s weight of 100 kg.

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  1. Division of Computational Mechatronics, Institute for Computational Science, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Thanh-Phong Dao

  2. Faculty of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Thanh-Phong Dao

  3. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Ngoc Le Chau

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Beant College of Engineering and Technology, Gurdaspur, Punjab, India

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  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Beant College of Engineering and Technology, Gurdaspur, Punjab, India

    Sarabjeet Singh Sidhu

  3. Department of Tissue Engineering and Applied Cell Sciences, School of Medicine, Nervous System Stem Cells Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran

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  4. School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

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Dao, TP., Le Chau, N. (2019). Passive Prosthetic Ankle and Foot with Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic: Biomechanical Design, Simulation, and Optimization. In: Bains, P., Sidhu, S., Bahraminasab, M., Prakash, C. (eds) Biomaterials in Orthopaedics and Bone Regeneration . Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9977-0_6

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