Sara Alecci
Computational modelling of TPMS unit cells for bone scaffold.
Rel. Dario Carbonaro, Joao Carlos Fernandes Da Silva, Umberto Morbiducci. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2025
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Bone scaffolds have emerged as a key solution in tissue engineering for the repair of bone defects, with the objective of replicating the morphological and mechanical properties of the native bone. Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces (TPMS) unit cells, characterized by their smooth and continuous geometry, represent an excellent solution for the design of lattice structures for bone scaffolds. In this thesis a computational framework has been implemented to design bone scaffolds based on TPMS unit cells with different geometries and configurations. The framework was developed in Matlab and it is based on the open-source toolboxes “LatticeWorks” and “GIBBON,” integrated with “TetGen” for unit cell generation and tetrahedral mesh creation.
The stiffness of the lattice structure has been evaluated through the homogenization theory implemented via the “3D Homogenization of Cellular Materials” toolbox, allowing the estimation of the equivalent elastic modulus of the structures as a function of porosity and of the material
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