@Article{cmes.2010.057.225,
AUTHOR = {F.  Auricchio, M. Contisup>1,5,S. Morgantisup>1,, A.  Reali},
TITLE = {Shape Memory Alloy: from Constitutive Modeling to Finite Element Analysis of Stent Deployment},
JOURNAL = {Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences},
VOLUME = {57},
YEAR = {2010},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {225--244},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/CMES/v57n3/25483},
ISSN = {1526-1506},
ABSTRACT = {The use of shape memory alloys (SMA) in an increasing number of applications in many fields of engineering, and in particular in biomedical engineering, is leading to a growing interest toward an exhaustive modeling of their macroscopic behavior in order to construct reliable simulation tools for SMA-based devices. In this paper, we review the properties of a robust three-dimensional model able to reproduce both pseudo-elastic and shape-memory effect; then we calibrate the model parameters on experimental data and, finally, we exploit the model to perform the finite element analysis of pseudo-elastic Nitinol stent deployment in a simplified atherosclerotic artery model.},
DOI = {10.3970/cmes.2010.057.225}
}