Miracle of Modern Medicine
I just had my one year follow-up echocardiogram. The left ventrical of my health is just a bit more than 1cm smaller! I'm not [...]
Generic Balloon Expandable Stent
The ASTM F.04.30.06 undertook an inter-laboratory study for axial fatigue testing of a generic, stainless steel balloon expandable stent. We were interested in resolving [...]
Monoleaflet
A package arrived from the Cleveland Clinic. I had asked to have my old aortic valve sent to me after it was taken out. [...]
Identifying Worst Case Device Sizes
For medical devices, rarely does "one size fit all". The human body is extremely variable and patient populations, especially those with disease present a [...]
Contact Interaction for Medical Implants
There are many circumstances when it is necessary to model contact and contact interactions when analyzing medical implants. Such circumstances arise when devices interact [...]
Evaluating Design Instabilities with FEA
Finite Element Analysis is routinely used to evaluate the performance and durability of medical devices. When using an implicit method such as ABAQUS/Standard, FEA [...]