About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Characterization of Minerals, Metals and Materials 2026 - In-Situ Characterization Techniques
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| Presentation Title |
Mechanical Behaviour of Additively Manufactured TPMS-Voronoi Hybrid Scaffolds |
| Author(s) |
Kaushik Raj Pyla, Ishaan Gupta, Hongxu Wang, Hang Dong, Juan P. Escobedo-Diaz |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Juan P. Escobedo-Diaz |
| Abstract Scope |
There are 206 bones in the adult human body. Millions suffer fractures and bone diseases each year, with numbers set to rise in the future. This poses a strong need to develop robust implants that can resist different loads experienced by our body, especially sudden impact loads. The rise of additive manufacturing has opened pathways for exploring intricate designs and hence a possibility towards restoring the ecosystem of the damaged bone via tissue engineered scaffolds. In the current study, attempts have been made to develop new generation tissue engineering scaffolds using hybridization technique. Triply Periodic Minimal Surface (TPMS) and Voronoi lattice structures were combined using different layered strategies to obtain these designs. Manufacturing was carried out using Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) and with polylactic acid as feedstock. The mechanical load-bearing performance of these scaffolds was evaluated under compression. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Characterization, Additive Manufacturing, Mechanical Properties |