...K. Senol; H. Cao; S. Tripathy Fatigue is a major challenge encountered in cardiovascular implant design. While the properly heat-treated Nitinol can exhibit up to 6–7% recoverable strains allowing for minimally invasive transcatheter delivery of cardiovascular implants, the cyclic in vivo loading...

..., the expansion of a self-expanding GPS TM stent and its interaction with diseased lesion was quantified to understand the impact of plaque calcification on stenting outcomes. The self-expanding behavior of the GPS TM stent was obtained through implementing the material properties of Nitinol material. The three...

...Nuno Rebelo; Rob Radford; Achim Zipse; Martin Schlun; Gael Dreher Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of Nitinol medical devices has become prevalent in the industry. The analysis methods have evolved in time with the knowledge about the material, the manufacturing processes, the testing or in vivo...