Effects of Notches and Grain Size on Transformations in Nitinol
In this paper, we present a research methodology to characterize the effects of crystallographic orientation and grain size on the deformations and transformations in [...]
Simulating Radiofrequency Ablation
I became interested in simulating the effects of RF ablation as early as 1998 when I did some work for St. Jude Medical. What [...]
Modeling Polycrystaline Nitinol
There are many ways to model Nitinol using Finite Element Analysis. Over the years we have studied them all, from rigorous analytical implementations based [...]
Nonzero Mean Fatigue Testing of Nitinol
This paper describes a fatigue test protocol that was used to determine the factor of safety for a superelastic Nitinol implantable medical device. A [...]
Transrenal AAA Stent
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 [...]