Journal
COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING
Volume 32, Issue 7, Pages 969-976Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-835X(01)00009-4
Keywords
glass fibres; resin transfer moulding (RTM); pultrusion; tow; medical implants
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The development of biodegradable materials for surgical applications is a growing area, especially in the area of fracture repair. A fully biodegradable composite has been developed for the manufacture of surgical implants tailored to the patient's injury. This composite consists of a poly-epsilon -caprolactone matrix and a biodegradable glass fibre reinforcement. This paper describes two approaches to the manufacture of such implants using geometries derived from patient scan data: a variant of structural reaction injection moulding or resin transfer moulding, and a rapid prototyping method based upon material deposition modelling. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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