Virtual modelling of a prosthetic foot to improve footwear testing

The footwear industry is continually producing more technically engineered shoes, therefore, it is necessary to improve existing laboratory footwear tests using simplistic rigid stamps to something more realistic. The aim of this article is to investigate the possibility of reverse engineering a sta...

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Main Authors:	Gillian E. Mara, Andy Harland, Sean Mitchell
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2006
Subjects:	Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified Finite-element analysis Prosthetic foot Validation Footwear testing Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/15717
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spelling	rr-article-95627842006-01-01T00:00:00Z Virtual modelling of a prosthetic foot to improve footwear testing Gillian E. Mara (7204460) Andy Harland (1252917) Sean Mitchell (1249317) Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified Finite-element analysis Prosthetic foot Validation Footwear testing Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified The footwear industry is continually producing more technically engineered shoes, therefore, it is necessary to improve existing laboratory footwear tests using simplistic rigid stamps to something more realistic. The aim of this article is to investigate the possibility of reverse engineering a standard commercially available component accurately enough to produce constructive results in a finite-element analysis (FEA). A prosthetic foot was chosen as it is commercially available and is more representative of a real foot. Information on its geometry and material properties were gathered using a non-destructive method. X-ray images and three-dimensional laser scanning were used to capture the dimensions of the internal and external geometries, whereas the vickers microhardness test and volume and mass calculations were used along with the Cambridge Engineering Selector software to identify material properties. To validate the finite-element prosthetic foot, a vertical heel compression and a forefoot flexibility laboratory test were conducted and mimicked in an FEA software package. Good and fair agreements were found in the two tests, respectively. It is concluded that a non-destructive approach to reverse engineer a standard component is an effective method of improving the realism of existing footwear tests both in reality and in finite-element situations. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/15717 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Virtual_modelling_of_a_prosthetic_foot_to_improve_footwear_testing/9562784 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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topic	Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified Finite-element analysis Prosthetic foot Validation Footwear testing Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
spellingShingle	Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified Finite-element analysis Prosthetic foot Validation Footwear testing Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified Gillian E. Mara Andy Harland Sean Mitchell Virtual modelling of a prosthetic foot to improve footwear testing
description	The footwear industry is continually producing more technically engineered shoes, therefore, it is necessary to improve existing laboratory footwear tests using simplistic rigid stamps to something more realistic. The aim of this article is to investigate the possibility of reverse engineering a standard commercially available component accurately enough to produce constructive results in a finite-element analysis (FEA). A prosthetic foot was chosen as it is commercially available and is more representative of a real foot. Information on its geometry and material properties were gathered using a non-destructive method. X-ray images and three-dimensional laser scanning were used to capture the dimensions of the internal and external geometries, whereas the vickers microhardness test and volume and mass calculations were used along with the Cambridge Engineering Selector software to identify material properties. To validate the finite-element prosthetic foot, a vertical heel compression and a forefoot flexibility laboratory test were conducted and mimicked in an FEA software package. Good and fair agreements were found in the two tests, respectively. It is concluded that a non-destructive approach to reverse engineer a standard component is an effective method of improving the realism of existing footwear tests both in reality and in finite-element situations.
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author	Gillian E. Mara Andy Harland Sean Mitchell
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title	Virtual modelling of a prosthetic foot to improve footwear testing
title_short	Virtual modelling of a prosthetic foot to improve footwear testing
title_full	Virtual modelling of a prosthetic foot to improve footwear testing
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Virtual modelling of a prosthetic foot to improve footwear testing

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