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Customised design and manufacture of protective face masks combining a practitioner-friendly modelling approach and low-cost devices for digitising and additive manufacturing

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posted on 2014-12-09, 14:41 authored by Aitor Cazon, Jon Aizpurua, Abby PatersonAbby Paterson, Richard Bibb, Ian Campbell
This project analyses the viability of an efficient modelling approach using a semi-automatic algorithm within a Computer Aided Design (CAD) application in combination with low-cost digitising devices and low-cost Additive Manufacturing (AM) printers when designing and manufacturing patient-specific face masks. The aims of the study were to enable clinical practitioners to utilise the advantages of three-dimensional (3D) scanning, CAD and AM without having to be trained to use design/engineering software. Face features were captured using two 3D devices. The resulting meshes were compared via the Hausdorff Distance method. A semi-automatic modelling procedure was developed with ‘Rhinoceros’ and ‘Grasshopper’ to model the face mask and customise several features. With that procedure, volunteers modelled a face mask in less than 30 minutes in their first attempt. The resulting virtual mask was manufactured with two AM printers. An initial economic study indicated that the presented approach offers a feasible alternative to the current practices.

History

School

  • Design and Creative Arts

Department

  • Design

Published in

Virtual and Physical Prototyping

Volume

9

Issue

4

Pages

251 - 261

Citation

CAZON, A. ... et al, 2014. Customised design and manufacture of protective face masks combining a practitioner-friendly modelling approach and low-cost devices for digitising and additive manufacturing. Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 9 (4), pp. 251 - 261.

Publisher

© Taylor & Francis

Version

  • SMUR (Submitted Manuscript Under Review)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2014-08-13

Publication date

2014-09-18

Notes

This is the Submitted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Virtual and Physical Prototyping on 18 Sept 2014, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17452759.2014.958648

ISSN

1745-2759

eISSN

1745-2767

Language

  • en