F. Auricchio1,2,3,4,1,5,1, M. Contisup>1,5,S. Morgantisup>1,, A. Reali1,2,3
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.57, No.3, pp. 225-244, 2010, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2010.057.225
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. More >
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