Non-woven textiles for medical implants: mechanical performances improvement
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Non-woven textile has been largely used as medical implant material over the last decades, especially for scaffold manufacturing purpose. This material presents a large surface area-to-volume ratio, which promotes adequate interaction with biological tissues. However, its strength is limited due to the lack of cohesion between the fibers. The goal of the present work was to investigate if a non-woven substrate can be reinforced by embroidery stitching towards strength increase. Non-woven samples were produced from both melt-blowing and electro-spinning techniques, reinforced with a stitching yarn and tested regarding several performances: ultimate tensile strength, burst strength and strength loss after fatigue stress. Several stitching parameters were considered: distance between stitches, number of stitch lines (1, 2 or 3) and line geometry (horizontal H, vertical L, cross X). The performance values obtained after reinforcement were compared with values obtained for control samples. Results bring out that reinforcement can increase the strength by up to 50% for a melt-blown mat and by up to 100% for an electro-spun mat with an X reinforcement pattern. However, after cyclic loading, the reinforcement yarn tends to degrade the ES mat in particular. Moreover, increasing the number of stitches tends to fragilize the mats.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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