Evaluating risk of fatigue fractures in cardiovascular implants via nonclinical testing is
essential to provide an indication of their durability. This is generally accomplished by …

AAA disease is a serious condition and a multidisciplinary approach including biomechanics
is needed to better understand and more effectively treat this disease. A rupture risk …

Cardiovascular disease has become a major global health care problem in the present
decade. To tackle this problem, the use of cardiovascular stents has been considered a …

Statistical fatigue models are often constructed in one of two ways:(1) life construction,
where fatigue life is a function of fatigue amplitude, or (2) strength construction, where …

The stent-artery interactions have been increasingly studied using the finite element method
for better understanding of the biomechanical environment changes on the artery and its …

Femur fracture at the tip of a total hip replacement (THR), commonly known as Vancouver
B1 fracture, is mainly treated using rigid metallic bone plates which may result in “stress …

Severely calcified plaque is of great concern when planning and implementing a stenting
intervention. In this work, computational models were developed to investigate the influence …

In this study, a Bayesian optimization (BO) based computational framework is developed to
investigate the design of transcatheter aortic valve (TAV) leaflets and to optimize leaflet …

Fenestrated endovascular aneurysm repair (FEVAR) is a minimally invasive method of
abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair utilized in patients with complex vessel anatomies …

The tricuspid valve is a one-way valve on the pulmonary side of the heart, which prevents
backflow of blood during ventricular contractions. Development of computational models of …