Design and Analysis of 3D Printable Prosthetic Foot

Abstract

Within a short span of time, the medical-related devices, implants kind of product, have been done by 3D printing manufacturing process. The objective of this study is to design a 3D printable prosthetic foot with an optimized design. The prosthetic foot is very much useful to people with lower-limb loss. It is manufactured by additive manufacturing using nylon 66 materials. The foot is designed using Mechanical CAD Software and imported into ANSYS workbench. The topology optimization is used for providing the portable prosthetic foot with the weight as light as possible. Without compromising the strength and quality of a product, the weight of the product can be reduced using a topology optimization technique.