Research Areas

Biomedical Manufacturing Position Paper

• Biomedical manufacturing (ASME J of Mfg Sci and Eng)
• Biomanufacturing (CIRP keynote)

Additive Manufacturing of Custom Orthoses and Prostheses

• Review of AM of orthoses and prostheses
• Nano-CT for inspection of fused deposition modeling parts

Soft, Flexible Assistive Devices and Robotics

• Low for additive manufacturing of thin wall silicone
• Additive manufacturing of thin wall silicone pneumatic actuators

Grinding

- Atherectomy (inside artery)

• Grinding wheel motion, force, and temperature
• Debris size in plaque grinding

- Brain surgery

• Cold mist irrigation for endonasal surgical bone grinding
• Temperature prediction in high speed bone grinding
• Mist cooling in surgical bone grinding
• Thermal model to predict the bone temperature in neurosurgery

- Ceramic

• Wheel wear in vitreous bond SiC grinding of zirconia
• Temperature in vitreous bond SiC grinding of zirconia

Drilling

- Metal

• Titanium
• MQL deep hole drilling
• CGI drilling

- Bone

• Notched K-wire
• Heat accumulation in sequential bone drilling
• Numerical modeling of heat accumulation in sequential bone drilling

Medical device - Needle

• Grinding of needle with lancet tip
• Grinding of NiTi wire tip
• Optimization of the needle cutting edge geometry for minimum force insertion

Tissue-Mimicking Materials

• PVC
• Silicone
• Gellan gum

Novel medical device - Active orthosis

• Active spinal orthoses
• Contract stress in lower thorax orthoses

Clinical Simulators

• Femoral arterial access simulator
• Torque for screw placement for orthopaedic surgery
• Endoscopic endonasal bone drilling in brain surgery
• Ventricular drain placement simulator for neurosurgery
• Cerebral artery for aneurysm