Abrasive Flow Machining of Additively Manufactured Femoral Head of the Hip Joint
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The biomedical implants used in knee and hip replacement have freeform geometry. Finishing them using conventional processes is challenging; thus, non-conventional finishing processes are recommended. In the present work, the femoral head of the hip joint was designed and manufactured using selective laser sintering (SLS) technique and followed by the abrasive flow machining (AFM) process for finishing. Taguchi L9 orthogonal array analysis was used to design the experiments. Extrusion pressure (EP), media flow speed (FS) and abrasive mesh size (MS) have been used as process parameters. The effect has been noted based on the quantity of material removed (MR) and percentage improvement in surface roughness (%ΔRa) with the help of signal-to-noise ratio (S/N ratio) and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The optimization of process responses was done using Minitab 18 software. Experimentally, a maximum MR of 69 mg and %ΔRa of 25.19% was obtained. Also, the process responses have been modeled using artificial neural network (ANN) methodology. The MR and %ΔRa values, predicted using ANN, agreed with experimental values. Graphical Abstract
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced machining processes and optimization · Advanced Surface Polishing Techniques · Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty
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