Topology-optimized implants: medical requirements and partial aspects of a design engineering process chain

Establishing a process chain for designing topology-optimized implants requires the inclusion of discipline-specific design paths that may vary significantly when considered from a medical or an engineering point of view. Creating a joint design platform is viewed as an innovative approach. The objectives include efficient communication and transfer of results between engineers and medical professionals based on software-implemented interfaces. These include aspects of modeling for design, translation to the medical environment and the surgeon's planning of the surgical procedure. Selected partial aspects of the developed design engineering process chain are presented based on project examples from the fields of vascular surgery and hip arthroplasty.