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Procedia Structural Integrity 49 (2023) 1–2

Medical Devices: Materials, Mechanics and Manufacturing Editorial Sotiris Korossis*, Vadim V. Silberschmidt Medical Devices: Materials, Mechanics and Manufacturing Editorial Sotiris Korossis*, Vadim V. Silberschmidt

© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of ICMD3M 2023 organizers © 2023 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of ICMD3M 2023 organizers Keywords: Medical devices; materials; manufacturing; mechanics © 2023 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of ICMD3M 2023 organizers Keywords: Medical devices; materials; manufacturing; mechanics Even in ancient times, medical devices were utilised in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome to aid patient survival and rehabilitation in peace and war. The American Civil war, just before the second industrial revolution, saw a dramatic progress in the development of medical devices to assist the thousands of soldiers wounded in the conflict. In the 20 th century, and through the third and fourth industrial revolutions, there has been a boom of a plethora of medical devices for the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, nervous, endocrine, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems. Medical devices are a success story of modern engineering, with implantable hip and knee joints, heart valves, vascular stents and grafts, artificial hearts and pacemakers, as well extracorporeal devices, such as artificial lungs and orthotic devices, being routinely used in the clinical setting towards the end of the 20 th century. These advancements also generated a booming industrial sector, especially in the Western world, with an annual global medical devices market size of some USD 500 billion by the turn of the century. The past few decades saw the development of novel emerging technologies and concepts in the form of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, stem cells, additive manufacturing and bioprinting, biofabrication, bioreactors, in vitro studies and in silico modelling that are not only aimed at developing smarter and personalised therapeutic Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom Even in ancient times, medical devices were utilised in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome to aid patient survival and rehabilitation in peace and war. The American Civil war, just before the second industrial revolution, saw a dramatic progress in the development of medical devices to assist the thousands of soldiers wounded in the conflict. In the 20 th century, and through the third and fourth industrial revolutions, there has been a boom of a plethora of medical devices for the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, nervous, endocrine, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems. Medical devices are a success story of modern engineering, with implantable hip and knee joints, heart valves, vascular stents and grafts, artificial hearts and pacemakers, as well extracorporeal devices, such as artificial lungs and orthotic devices, being routinely used in the clinical setting towards the end of the 20 th century. These advancements also generated a booming industrial sector, especially in the Western world, with an annual global medical devices market size of some USD 500 billion by the turn of the century. The past few decades saw the development of novel emerging technologies and concepts in the form of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, stem cells, additive manufacturing and bioprinting, biofabrication, bioreactors, in vitro studies and in silico modelling that are not only aimed at developing smarter and personalised therapeutic

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 1509 227651. E-mail address: s.korossis@lboro.ac.uk * Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 1509 227651. E-mail address: s.korossis@lboro.ac.uk

2452-3216 © 2023 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of ICMD3M 2023 organizers 2452-3216 © 2023 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of ICMD3M 2023 organizers

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