Femoral artery; Nitinol stent; Material properties; Mechanical performance; Finite element analysis. Abstract The Finite element method was used for evaluation of the effects of material properties on the mechanical performance of the new geometry designed for the Z-shaped open-cell femoral artery selfexpanding stent, made of Nitinol wire, by application of crushing force. The behavior of the s...

The behavior of sand crushing will appear when the confining pressure is up to a certain value, which results in disappearing of the positive dilatancy of sand. Adopting a new hardening parameter with the crushing stress, an elastoplastic constitutive model considering sand crushing is proposed. Comparing the conventional triaxial compression test results with the model prediction, it shows tha...

Introduction and Objective. Bleeding is an important complication in liver transections. To determine the safety and efficacy of Debakey forceps for liver parenchymal transection and its ergonomic advantages over clamp crushing method we analysed our data. Methods. We used Debakey crushing technique in 100 liver resections and analysed data for transection time, transfusion rate, morbidity, mor...

The significant features of the GFRP angle make it one modern construction members for present lattice-type Transmission Line Towers (TLT) made out mild steel. structural with gusset plate connections net-crushing strength are investigated in this study, an emphasis on to transmission line towers. Forty-two specimens single-lap, butt joints bolted considered study. and edge distance have differ...

BACKGROUND There exists a great variety of liver parenchyma transection techniques. The objective of this research is to develop a new method of liver transection, and to compare it with the traditional ones. METHODS An original gas jet transection method of biological tissues and the apparatus "Pneumojet" to make the method practicable were developed in our institute. Comparison between the ...

This study was carried out to determine lung function and respiratory and non-respiratory symptoms among men and women exposed to dust emitted from crushing of granite rocks and to compare them with control men and women not exposed to any known air pollutant. The sites were the granite rock crushing industries in old Netim, Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria. Respirabl...

cylindrical thin-walled tubes due to construction and easy installation, high energy absorption capacity are used in the automotive industry as an impact energy absorber. however, the main weakness of cylindrical tubes is in the high initial peak load. therefore, in this paper, to overcome this weakness, a buckling initiator is used at the top of the tube. this buckling initiator is a steel rod...

B-pillar and rocker are the key force transmission sub-systems of side impact battery electric vehicle (BEV), scholars have studied crashworthiness these body a lot. However, works insufficient on analysis benchmarking models, simulation experiment sub-systems, optimization sub-systems. To make up shortcomings, this work aims to design improve BEV. It presents systematic method The dynamic bend...

Aiming at the lack of a precise discrete element model in simulation analysis corn straw crushing, this paper established bond models with different structure and particle properties based on Hertz-Mindlin bonding, verified by combining physical test optimization design methods. Firstly, study generates bonded bonding for epidermis-epidermis, inner flesh-internal flesh, epidermis-internal respe...