Generative design of joint contact surfaces inspired by biological morphogenesis

Stress-adaptive design of 2D contact interfaces with uniform pressure: A bio-inspired approach

“…In consequence, the designer needs to have a certain knowledge of the form of the target shape. Another approach was proposed in [37,38] where it was shown the feasibility of applying cartilage growth rules in engineering design. Nonetheless, they did not evaluate the uniformity of the contact pressure distribution and they focused on a particular case.…”

“…Although this type of equation has been successfully used in biology [10], in [37,38] it was indicated that a discontinuous σ g as that in Eq. ( 6) leads to discontinuous growth.…”

From biological morphogenesis to engineering joint design: A bio-inspired algorithm

“…To date, only the authors' research group has made an initial approach to the application of the synovial joint morphogenesis principles to design mechanical pieces, demonstrating the feasibility of applying the cartilage growth laws in the automatic design of contact surfaces [28]. However, the way of establishing the process parameters and their influence on the final shape is not discussed.…”