ABSTRACT
For a long time, clinical orthopedics has been facing the problem of consolidation
tardive and nonunion; the root cause of this phenomenon is the lack of real-time
detection and accurate control over the stress environment of living skeleton injury
cross-section. As the stress environment of fracture cross-section is complex, at present
there is no effective non-invasive real-time detection principle and method for testing
the stress environment of fracture trauma cross-section, let alone real-time control of its
stress environment. Clinically, the unknowable and uncontrollable pressure that the
surgeon exerts on the bone cause the speed and quality of fracture healing can not be
guaranteed.
Based on the above background, this M. S. Dissertation relies on the Natural
Science Foundation of China project “real-time monitoring and control mechanism for
trauma section stress environment and experimental research in fracture healing”(No.:
50975179). The main work of this paper is the design of a micro two-dimensional stress
sensor which used for stress measurement on the fracture trauma section, and to conduct
experimental research including bone trauma section stress test and control mechanism
research. The major research achievements of this dissertation are as follows:
1) Biomechanics mechanism of fracture healing and bone external fixation are
described in this paper, summarizes the bone trauma section stress measurement method,
analyzes the research status of fracture strain sensor, non-invasive sensing detection and
control mechanism for the stress of bone trauma section has been proposed,
non-invasive sensing detection and control system of bone stress has been designed.
2) According to the requirements that the fracture stress non-invasive sensing
detection system needs to achieve the simultaneous measurement of the axial pull
pressure and radial shear force, the elastomer of the two-dimensional bone force sensor
based on E-type round diaphragm structure has been designed. The mechanical model
of the elastomer has been established, the stress and strain analytic solution of elastomer
under the action of axial pull pressure and radial shear force has been solved, and the
stress and strain analytic solutions under the action of resultant force also has been
obtained according to the superposition principle.
3) Established the finite element model of the sensor elastic body, respectively
analyzed the strain change of the elastic body under the action of axial pull pressure,
radial shear force and resultant force, and verified the correctness of the superposition
principle in the theoretical model according to the finite element solution results. Then
the obtained strain calculated results of the theoretical model and that of the finite
element model were compared to verify the correctness of the theoretical model, and
provided foundation for strain gauge patch position and bridging form as well.
4) Based on the theoretical model, the main structure dimensions--inner and outer
radius ratio and thickness of the elastic body-- has been optimized, the optimization
target of internal and external radius is the sensitivity of the sensor, and the optimization
goal of the thickness is linearity, thereby the major structural dimensions of the sensor
were obtained. According to the theory model and finite element model analysis results,