A review of cutting mechanics and modeling techniques for biological materials. Academic Article

abstract

• This paper presents a comprehensive survey on the modeling of tissue cutting, including both soft tissue and bone cutting processes. In order to achieve higher accuracy in tissue cutting, as a critical process in surgical operations, the meticulous modeling of such processes is important in particular for surgical tool development and analysis. This review paper is focused on the mechanical concepts and modeling techniques utilized to simulate tissue cutting such as cutting forces and chip morphology. These models are presented in two major categories, namely soft tissue cutting and bone cutting. Fracture toughness is commonly used to describe tissue cutting while Johnson-Cook material model is often adopted for bone cutting in conjunction with finite element analysis (FEA). In each section, the most recent mathematical and computational models are summarized. The differences and similarities among these models, challenges, novel techniques, and recommendations for future work are discussed along with each section. This review is aimed to provide a broad and in-depth vision of the methods suitable for tissue and bone cutting simulations.

authors

• Tai, Bruce

published proceedings

• Med Eng Phys

author list (cited authors)

• Takabi, B., & Tai, B. L.

citation count

• 35

complete list of authors

• Takabi, Behrouz||Tai, Bruce L

publication date

• January 2017

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Medical Engineering and Physics  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Bone And Bones
• Bone Cutting
• Bone Drilling
• Cutting Mechanics
• Finite Element Analysis
• Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• Humans
• Mechanical Phenomena
• Models, Biological
• Needle Insertion
• Surgical Procedures, Operative
• Tissue Cutting

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.medengphy.2017.04.004

start page

• 1

end page

• 14

volume

• 45

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2017.04.004