Wave propagation in human tissue from transient high frequency vibrations
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Biomedical engineering (MPBME), MSc
Publicerad
2020
Författare
Mathiyalagan, Priyanka
Nadafan, Parsia
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Sammanfattning
Hand-arm vibration injury from the daily exposure of vibrating hand-held machine
is one of the common health injuries and causes severe nerve cell damage to the
person operating the machine for a long time. The major health problems caused
by daily use of vibrating tools causes signs and symptoms like peripheral vascular
and peripheral neural disorders of the fingers and hands. These disorder symptoms
include numbness, pain, and blanching of the fingers.
ISO 5349 claims that the vibrating machines with frequencies in the range of 8-1250
Hz must be regulated. However, vibrations with frequencies higher than 1250 Hz
from machines like an impact wrench or dental drills can also damage nerve cells
and blood vessels.
The objective of this thesis is to study wave propagation in human tissue from
transient high frequency vibration of machines tools. The software LS-DYNA is
used for performing the simulation and analyze the results. The 2D cross-section
finite element model is created for the simulation to see the wave propagation into the
finger tissue. The following analysis of simulation results shows that the different
load cases from the hand-held vibrating machines affect the skin. However, the
change in bulk modulus and decay constant does not make much difference. The
intermediate skin layer has more impact caused by the hand-held vibrating machines.
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Hand-arm vibration , Impact wrench machine , Rammer , High-frequency vibration , Strain and strain rate , HAVS , FEM , ISO 5349