A System for Supporting the Design of Total Surface Bearing Transtibial Sockets

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach for assessing the regularity of a 3D triangular meshed surface. Contrary to other standard methods, our method does not require the computation of any triangle features; it is based exclusively on topological properties, defined at the triangular facet's neighborhood, and exhibits intrinsic scalability. This approach is validated through experiments conducted with a real triangular mesh surfaces. A comparison with standard mesh regularity criteria further confirmed the validity of our method.

Additive manufacturing of custom orthoses and prostheses—A review

“…13, to increase the flexural strength [45,46]. This group also developed a system which used a vacuum forming tool to capture the geometry of the residual limb under a controlled negative pressure and AM was used to fabricate a positive mold to represent the residual limb [48]. The positive mold could be 3D scanned and used to produce the geometry of the prosthetic sockets to be additive manufactured and coated with polyester resin.…”