Title
Testing for Flow Rates and Pressure Surges During the Motion of Surgical Bone Reamers
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Publication Source
World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education
Volume
4
Issue
2
Inclusive pages
187-190
Publisher
UNESCO * International Centre for Engineering Education
Place of Publication
Australia
ISBN/ISSN
14462257
Abstract
In order to gain experience in fluid-structure interaction in the fluid mechanics laboratory, students in the junior year designed multi-bladed propellers and utilised them to simulate the motion of surgical bone reamers in tubes filled with water. Using a test stand, they had built to test actual reamers from manufacturers, they investigated the effect of the rotation and translation of multi-bladed propellers on the flow rates and the pressures generated during surgical operations. Their results show that the rotation of a propeller reduces the rate of fluid flow in the radial direction, creates a transient surge of pressure, and causes the steady-state pressure in the surrounding fluid to fall below the baseline value, defined here as that which existed before rotation was initiated. These results were consistent with what is reported by orthopaedic surgeons.
Keywords
libii, flow rates
Disciplines
Engineering
Opus Citation
Josué Njock Libii (2005).
Testing for Flow Rates and Pressure Surges During the Motion of Surgical Bone Reamers. World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education.4 (2), 187-190. Australia: UNESCO * International Centre for Engineering Education.
https://opus.ipfw.edu/engineer_facpubs/49
Link to Original Published Item
http://www.wiete.com.au/journals/WTE&TE/Pages/Vol.4,%20No.2%20%282005%29/07-Libii22.pdf