Suture Clip for Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair
This is a picture of an excised mitral valve from a pig with suture and a clip holding the leaflets together in a novel approach to [...]
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 Standard for FEA of Metallic Vascular Stents
Follow this link to the ASTM website and find the long awaited for "Standard Guide for Finite Element Analysis of Metallic Vascular Stents Subjected [...]
Beach Day for Voyager Elementary School
June 3rd 2008 was beach day for Voyager Elementary students! All twenty first through third graders came over to our home on Rich Passage [...]
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 [...]