Frequency-Driven Crack Propagation in Ultrasonically-Assisted Bone Cutting

Data-driven Fatigue Crack Evaluation based on Wave Propagation Data

8 This project presents a machine learning based fatigue crack sensor 9 evaluation scheme without using a physical model. A supervised binary 10 classification problem is defined to distinguish damaged steel specimens 11 from intact specimens. Sets of time-series wave propagation data collected 12 by the fatigue crack sensor are utilized for the proposed scheme. In order to 13 apply supervised ...

Buoyancy-driven crack propagation: the limit of large fracture toughness

Measurements of Surface Roughness in Conventional and Ultrasonically Assisted Bone Drilling

Bone fracture due to an accident, aging or diseases is a feature of everyday life. One of the principal methods of repair and reconstruction of such a fracture is based on drilling the bone and fixing its separate parts together using screws, wires and plates. Morphology of the drilled hole surface and fixative components such as screws, pins and hooks influences strength of the bonds between t...

Experimental investigations of forces and torque in conventional and ultrasonically-assisted drilling of cortical bone.

Bone drilling is widely used in orthopaedics and surgery; it is a technically demanding surgical procedure. Recent technological improvements in this area are focused on efforts to reduce forces in bone drilling. This study focuses on forces and a torque required for conventional and ultrasonically-assisted tool penetration into fresh bovine cortical bone. Drilling tests were performed with two...

Crack propagation in viscoelastic solids.

We study crack propagation in a viscoelastic solid. Using simple arguments, we derive equations for the velocity dependence of the crack-tip radius, a (v) , and for the energy per unit area to propagate the crack, G (v) . For a viscoelastic modulus E (omega) which increases as omega(1-s) (0< s< 1) in the transition region between the rubbery region and the glassy region, we find that a (v) appr...