Abstract:The article presents a new medical device through an authorial and interdisciplinary approach. It consists of a flexible external fixator, whose flexible property may bring advantages over rigid mechanisms. Its design was inspired by the DNA biological mechanism of condensation, while the modeling was based on the pseudo-rigid modeling technique. From the models obtained, this study conducted prototyping and computational tests to obtain a proof-of-concept of the bioinspired theory and dynamic functioning effe… Show more
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