Multi-objective performance investigation of orthopaedic bone drilling using Taguchi membership function.

Abstract

Orthopaedic bone drilling attacks the surrounded bone cells and tissues in terms of thermal and mechanical in such a way that these cells can get damaged permanently. This damage to the surrounding of drill point upsurges the rehabilitation time of injury and in some cases leads to the failure of the bone screw joint. This study is based on the optimization of multiple response characteristics to minimize the damage during the bone drilling. All real-life problems, including bone drilling, require the multiple response optimization for getting a combined optimization result for all countable response characteristics. The Taguchi optimization technique is observed as a highly recommended tool for single response optimization. This article uses the Taguchi technique with little modification of membership function that will help to convert the multiple response characteristics into single response and further optimize it as a single function of performance. Rotational speed, feed rate of tool at three different levels with three different kinds of drilling tools are the drilling parameters selected for the study. The objective of this study is to minimize the surface roughness and thrust force simultaneously. Analysis of variance helps to find the percentage contribution and significance of each parameter on the performance.