NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF TEMPERATURE, SCREWING MOMENT AND THRUST FORCE USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD IN BONE SCREWING PROCESS

Abstract

In this study, the bone screwing process carried out with M3.5 cortex screw for stabilization after reduction of femur shaft fracture was investigated both experimentally and numerically. The numerical analyses were performed based on the finite element method using Deform-3D software. The friction, material model, the loading and boundary conditions were exactly identified for finite element analyses. An analytic model and software were developed, which calculate the process parameters such as screwing power and thrust power, heat transfer coefficients in order to determine the temperature distributions occurring in the screw and bone material (sawbones) during screwing process. As a result, the screwing moment and thrust force values decrease with increase of spindle speed. On the contrary, temperature values of screw and sawbones increase with increase of spindle speed. A good consistency between the results obtained from both experimental and numerical simulations was found during the bone screwing process.