Composite - 3D Printed Material and Epoxy Resin

Here we seek to help prostheticists refine their prosthetic sockets vision by first providing a deep look at the problem that the anticipated product addresses, the person (‘consumer’) who has the problem, and associated assumptions made by the prostheticists about the problems and consumers.

Matlab graph

•From the graph, we are able to see that carbon fiber enhances the strength of the 3D printed material tremendously

•It does not make different in time and cost between these specimen.

•There has not been a study of how much force is exerted on prosthetics sockets

•These tests are to verify that the mechanical measurements are very large that we can assume we over-engineer the material.

•We choose to print the 2-mm-wall of the socket and laminate 2 layers of carbon fiber

•With 19 hours of printing + 24 hours of lamination = 43 hours

•Young’s Modulus is ~ 1 Gpa

•Can handle a load of ~ 7kN with the displacement bending ~ 3cm