Giorgia Prosperi
3D printing of a cycling helmet with bioinspired structure and biomaterial: design, additive manufacturing, and FEM validation.
Rel. Alberto Audenino, Ireneo Torca, Jon Aurrekoetxea. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Biomedical Engineering, 2021
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Abstract
This thesis work was carried out in collaboration with Mondragon Unibertsitatea, precisely with the research groups of the Departments of Additive Manufacturing and Composite Materials. The objective was to move away from the widespread creation of a Polystyrene (EPS) foam helmet and focus on new material, the Low Weight Polylactic Acid (PLA LW): biodegradable, biocompatible, obtaining a lightweight and 3D printed helmet with a bio-inspired structure (beetle structure), able to absorb a high amount of energy during the impact. Quasi-static compression tests on EPS samples of a generic helmet and samples of PLA LW with the beetle structure were carried out, to establish the differences between the two materials and calculate the specific stress.
The PLA LW specific stress values were in an intermediate range between the EPS in the software CES Edupack, and the analyzed EPS sample of a generic helmet: a valid reason to continue to carry out tests on the PLA LW with the beetle structure
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