Investigation of Porosity Relationship in Additive Manufactured Novel Bone Scaffold
Additive manufacturing (AM) is one the advanced process for building up a component layer by layer, with one layer of material was bonded to the previously laid layer using a 3D design data. In the field of medical science AM is very much useful in the development of Bone Scaffolds. The bone scaffold needs the good level of porosity for the cultivation of cells. In this work, an algorithm for a novel structure with the theme of flexible porosity was introduced. Scaffold models were developed using CATIA V5 for four different porosities. The novel structures made of Poly Amide (PA 2200) material were fabricated using a commercially available Selective Laser Sintering machine (SLS). The differences in scaffold theoretical and experimental porosities were investigated and the percentage of error was discussed.