Importance of material model in wall stress prediction in abdominal aortic aneurysms

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1282-1289

  Polzer, Stanislav ^a   Christian Gasser, T ^b   Bursa, Jiri ^a   Staffa, Robert ^c   Vlachovsky, Robert ^c   Man, Vojtech ^a   Skacel, Pavel ^a  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Abdominal aneurysm; FE analysis; Material model; Pre stressing; Wall stress

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS; BIOMECHANICAL SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FE ANALYSIS; MATERIAL MODELS; NONLINEAR MATERIAL MODELS; WALL STRESS;

BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; REPAIR; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA WALL; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MATERIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; WALL STRESS;

EID: 84880794223     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2013.01.008     Document Type: Article

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