Finite Element Optimization of Medical Implants
Finite Element Analysis is an excellent engineering tool for optimizing medical implants. It provides a fast and reliable method for evaluating both the performance [...]
The Selection of Nitinol Material Models for FEA Simulations
Nitinol is a unique metallic alloy that is ideally suited to use in medical devices. It has excellent biocompatibility and most of all it [...]
Metallic Medical Implant Material Fatigue Research
With the growing use of Nitinol in medical implants, there is a need for improved characterization of the material behavior of Nitinol and methodologies [...]
Medical Imaging Data and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Significant advances are being made in simulations for medical devices. The picture on the left, shared with me by Dr. Tina Morrison, former post-graduate student in [...]
Computing Alternating and Mean Stresses During Fatigue for a Cardiovascular Stent
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is routinely used to perform fatigue analyses of cardiovascular stents. For the case of balloon expandable stents, this means modeling [...]
ASTM Axial Fatigue of Stent
This work is related to an ASTM F04.30.06 subcommittee activity to develop a standard based on the Fatigue to Fracture methodology. The idea of [...]