High Speed Testing of Medical Devices and Materials
An important input to FEA is material characterization and limit information. In our laboratory we use a Bose 3230 test system for achieving test [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Recent Moire Interferometry Experiments
We dusted off the interferometer recently to perform some new experiments on Nitinol. The photo on the left shows our four beam phase shifted [...]
ASTM Standard for FEA of Metallic Vascular Stents
Follow this link to the ASTM website and find the long awaited for "Standard Guide for Finite Element Analysis of Metallic Vascular Stents Subjected [...]
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 [...]