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 [...]
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 [...]
Comprehensive Fatigue Analysis: Complex Loading of Implantable Medical Device
Medical device manufacturers are increasingly required to demonstrate that their products are safe and effective when subjected to complex loading conditions in the human [...]
Carotid Artery Stent Fractures: An Engineer’s Perspective
You can download my presentation at the 2007 Cleveland Clinic Stent Summit on carotid artery stent fractures from an engineers perspective which discusses combined [...]
Real Time Moire Interferometric Measurements of Nitinol Fatigue
Nitinol fatigue-SD from echobio on Vimeo. You can view an animation in real time of a crack growing in a Nitinol fatigue specimen observed [...]