The mechanical properties of Nitinol stents are normally evaluated experimentally due to complexities resulting from large deformations and material nonlinearity. Despite difficulties associated with [...]
I became interested in simulating the effects of RF ablation as early as 1998 when I did some work for St. Jude Medical. What [...]
There are many ways to model Nitinol using Finite Element Analysis. Over the years we have studied them all, from rigorous analytical implementations based [...]
This paper describes a fatigue test protocol that was used to determine the factor of safety for a superelastic Nitinol implantable medical device. A [...]
One of the very first stent designs I worked on was the transrenal stent for TeraMED’s Ariba bifurcated graft system. This was an early [...]
