Outputs (12)

Personalising prosthetics: digital interventions in disability and dance (2023)
Journal Article
Whatley, S., Benford, S., Marsh, K., Zhou, F., Ashcroft, I., Tennent, P., O'Brien, W., & Erhart, T. (2023). Personalising prosthetics: digital interventions in disability and dance. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 19(3), 318-333. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2023.2196884

This paper emerges from an interdisciplinary collaboration between prosthesis-using disabled dance artists, computer scientists, dance researchers and engineers to explore the transformative potential of digital technologies to co-create aestheticall... Read More about Personalising prosthetics: digital interventions in disability and dance.

Beyond Skin Deep: Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhou, F., Benford, S. D., Whatley, S., Marsh, K., Ashcroft, I., Erhart, T., O'Brien, W., & Tennent, P. (2023, April). Beyond Skin Deep: Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics. Presented at CHI '23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany

There is a trend for handcrafting bespoke prostheses that embody their wearers' aesthetic tastes and identities. We explore how this might be extended by enabling users to co-design with algorithms. We report a design-led exploration (Figure 1) in wh... Read More about Beyond Skin Deep: Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics.

A multiscale optimisation method for bone growth scaffolds based on triply periodic minimal surfaces (2021)
Journal Article
Lehder, E. F., Ashcroft, I. A., Wildman, R. D., Ruiz-Cantu, L. A., & Maskery, I. (2021). A multiscale optimisation method for bone growth scaffolds based on triply periodic minimal surfaces. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 20, 2085-2096. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-021-01496-8

Tissue engineered bone scaffolds are potential alternatives to bone allografts and autografts. Porous scaffolds based on triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) are good candidates for tissue growth because they offer high surface-to-volume ratio, ha... Read More about A multiscale optimisation method for bone growth scaffolds based on triply periodic minimal surfaces.

Strategies for functionally graded lattice structures derived using topology optimisation for additive manufacturing (2017)
Journal Article
Panesar, A., Abdi, M., Hickman, D., & Ashcroft, I. (2018). Strategies for functionally graded lattice structures derived using topology optimisation for additive manufacturing. Additive Manufacturing, 19, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2017.11.008

A number of strategies that enable lattice structures to be derived from Topology Optimisation (TO) results suitable for Additive Manufacturing (AM) are presented. The proposed strategies are evaluated for mechanical performance and assessed for AM s... Read More about Strategies for functionally graded lattice structures derived using topology optimisation for additive manufacturing.

3D reactive inkjet printing of polydimethylsiloxane (2017)
Journal Article
Sturgess, C., Tuck, C. J., Ashcroft, I. A., & Wildman, R. D. (2017). 3D reactive inkjet printing of polydimethylsiloxane. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 5(37), 9733-9745. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7tc02412f

© 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Material jetting is a process whereby liquid material can be deposited onto a substrate to solidify. Through a process of progressive additional layers, this deposition can then be used to produce 3D structures.... Read More about 3D reactive inkjet printing of polydimethylsiloxane.

3D inkjet printing of tablets exploiting bespoke complex geometries for controlled and tuneable drug release (2017)
Journal Article
Kyobula, M., Adedeji, A., Alexander, M. R., Saleh, E., Wildman, R. D., Ashcroft, I., Gellert, P. R., & Roberts, C. J. (2017). 3D inkjet printing of tablets exploiting bespoke complex geometries for controlled and tuneable drug release. Journal of Controlled Release, 261, 207-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2017.06.025

A hot melt 3D inkjet printing method with the potential to manufacture formulations in complex and adaptable geometries for the controlled loading and release of medicines is presented. This first use of a precisely controlled solvent free inkjet pri... Read More about 3D inkjet printing of tablets exploiting bespoke complex geometries for controlled and tuneable drug release.

A Tripropylene Glycol Diacrylate-based Polymeric Support Ink for Material Jetting (2017)
Journal Article
Aboulkhair, N., He, Y., Zhang, F., Saleh, E., Vaithilingam, J., Aboulkhair, N. T., Begines, B., Tuck, C. J., Hague, R. J., Ashcroft, I. A., & Wildman, R. D. (2017). A Tripropylene Glycol Diacrylate-based Polymeric Support Ink for Material Jetting. Additive Manufacturing, 16, 153-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2017.06.001

© 2017 Support structures and materials are indispensable components in many Additive Manufacturing (AM) systems in order to fabricate complex 3D structures. For inkjet-based AM techniques (known as Material Jetting), there is a paucity of studies o... Read More about A Tripropylene Glycol Diacrylate-based Polymeric Support Ink for Material Jetting.

A novel approach to design lesion-specific stents for minimum recoil (2016)
Journal Article
Farhan Khan, M., Brackett, D., Ashcroft, I., Tuck, C., & Wildman, R. D. (in press). A novel approach to design lesion-specific stents for minimum recoil. Journal of Medical Devices, 11(1), Article 011001. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4034880

Stent geometries are obtained by topology optimization for minimized compliance under different stenosis levels and plaque material types. Three levels of stenosis by cross-sectional area, i.e., 30%, 40%, and 50% and three different plaque material p... Read More about A novel approach to design lesion-specific stents for minimum recoil.

Shape complexity and process energy consumption in electron beam melting: a case of something for nothing in additive manufacturing? (2016)
Journal Article
Baumers, M., Tuck, C., Wildman, R. D., Ashcroft, I., & Hague, R. J. (in press). Shape complexity and process energy consumption in electron beam melting: a case of something for nothing in additive manufacturing?. Journal of Industrial Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12397

Additive manufacturing (AM) technology is capable of building up component geometry in a layer-by-layer process, entirely without tools, molds, or dies. One advantage of the approach is that it is capable of efficiently creating complex product geome... Read More about Shape complexity and process energy consumption in electron beam melting: a case of something for nothing in additive manufacturing?.

Nanoindentation shows uniform local mechanical properties across melt pools and layers produced by selective laser melting of AlSi10Mg alloy (2016)
Journal Article
Everitt, N. M., Aboulkhair, N. T., Maskery, I., Tuck, C., & Ashcroft, I. (2016). Nanoindentation shows uniform local mechanical properties across melt pools and layers produced by selective laser melting of AlSi10Mg alloy. https://doi.org/10.5185/amlett.2016.6171

Single track and single layer AlSi10Mg has been produced by selective laser melting (SLM) of alloy powder on a AlSi12 cast substrate. The SLM technique produced a cellular-dendritic ultra-fined grained microstructure. Chemical composition mapping an... Read More about Nanoindentation shows uniform local mechanical properties across melt pools and layers produced by selective laser melting of AlSi10Mg alloy.