Bone heating due to drilling - QuickField simulation example
Bone fracture treatment and other orthopedic procedures often require the bone drilling. Transient temperature field in bone during a 20-second drilling process, including temperature rise at a specified point below the bone surface.
How to find temperature rise during bone drilling?
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Task
Solution
Results
Temperature plot for point A.
Engineering question
Replace the moving drill tip with a moving heat source in an axisymmetric transient heat-transfer model and track the temperature at the point of interest over time.
orthopedic drilling tools, surgical drill bits, bone machining processes
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Simulation problem
Problem Type
Axisymmetric problem of the Transient heat transfer.
Bone fragment is considered as a cylinder with 3 cm radius and 3 cm height. Drilling is performed with 3 mm radius bit.
Thermal conductivity of bone λ = 0.54 W/K-m)
Density of the bone ρ = 1500 Kg/m³
Specific heat of bone C = 440 J/(Kg·K)
Initial temperature of bone is 37 °C (310 K).
Boundary conditions are simplified as convection with ambient temperature 37°C and convection coefficient 40 W/(K·m²).
Heat is generated at the tip of the drill bit, which has 3 mm length. Volume power of the generated heat is 1e7 W/m³.
Drilling speed is 5 cm/min, drilling time is 20 sec.
Find the transient temperature field in the bone. Calculate the temperature in the point A (6 mm from surface, 3 3m from axis) during 20 sec drilling process
Moving drill bit may be replaced by a moving heat source in the QuickField block "channel" using following QuickField Data Editor formula:
1e7*impulse(x,0.05/60*t,0.05/60*t+0.003)
Initial conditions are specified by the Static Heat Transfer problem, linked to the Transient Heat Transfer problem.
Boundary conditions for the bone fragment are simplified as convection.
Temperature distribution in the bone.
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