Journal article
Computer-aided design of porous artifacts
Computer aided design, v 37(3), pp 339-353
2005
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Abstract
Heterogeneous structures represent an important new frontier for 21st century engineering. Human tissues, composites, ‘smart’ and multi-material objects are all physically manifest in the world as three-dimensional (3D) objects with varying surface, internal and volumetric properties and geometries. For instance, a tissue engineered structure, such as bone scaffold for guided tissue regeneration, can be described as a heterogeneous structure consisting of 3D extra-cellular matrices (made from biodegradable material) and seeded donor cells and/or growth factors.
The design and fabrication of such heterogeneous structures requires new techniques for solid models to represent 3D heterogeneous objects with complex material properties. This paper presents a representation of model density and porosity based on stochastic geometry. While density has been previously studied in the solid modeling literature, porosity is a relatively new problem. Modeling porosity of bio-materials is critical for developing replacement bone tissues. The paper uses this representation to develop an approach to modeling of porous, heterogeneous materials and provides experimental data to validate the approach. The authors believe that their approach introduces ideas from the stochastic geometry literature to a new set of engineering problems. It is hoped that this paper stimulates researchers to find new opportunities that extend these ideas to be more broadly applicable for other computational geometry, graphics and computer-aided design problems.
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- Title
- Computer-aided design of porous artifacts
- Creators
- Craig Schroeder - Drexel UniversityWilliam C. Regli - Drexel UniversityAli Shokoufandeh - Drexel UniversityWei Sun - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Computer aided design, v 37(3), pp 339-353
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science; Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000225679500005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-6444226909
- Other Identifier
- 991019168177804721
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