In vitro fatigue-crack growth and fracture toughness behavior of thin-walled superelastic Nitinol tube for endovascular stents: A basis for defining the effect of crack-like defects

Biomaterials

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 700-709

  Robertson, Scott W ^a   Ritchie, Robert O ^a  

^a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Fracture mechanism; Fracture toughness; Nickel titanium alloy; Nitinol; Stent

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; NICKEL ALLOYS; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

ENDOVASCULAR STENTS; FRACTURE MECHANISM; NICKEL-TITANIUM ALLOYS; NITINOL;

GRAFTS;

BALANCED SALT SOLUTION; NITINOL;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ENDOVASCULAR STENT; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; PLASTICITY; PLIABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TUBE;

ALLOYS; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; STENTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33750468996     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2006.09.034     Document Type: Article

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