<aside> ✅ Computer-Aided Design
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<aside> ✅ Meeting documentation and interpersonal skills
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<aside> ✅ Presentation skills
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<aside> ✅ Materials and Biomechanics
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<aside> ✅ 3-D Printing
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Our patient in DP-2 was Art Vandelay. Art was suffering from a Trendelenburg gait as well as limited mobility. This was accompanied by pain as he walked. After considering the x-ray given, as well as other measures, we swiftly diagnosed Art Vandelay with a deformed right femur as a result of his early hip dysplasia as a child. With a deformed acetabulum and femoral head/neck, We had to do a full hip replacement, replace the acetabular cap, and create a bone graft to attach the implant. We designed a 3D model of the implant, as well as a computer program to calculate stress and strain levels on the implant when subjected to bodily forces
Plain radiograph of Art’s pelvic region (frontal view)
As usual, the first step of any design project is to create ideas for how the design should function. After creating an appropriate list of objectives, functions, and constraints, To create the best design possible, we each made our design to compare. Each of us tried to cover a different aspect of the design (form, forces, materials, etc):
Preliminary Design #1
Preliminary design #2
Preliminary Design #3
Preliminary Desing #4
We worked together to compare all of our designs while comparing with the need statement that we drafted up for Art, and created a final refined sketch:
Refined and final sketch of the implant