Thursday, May 26, 2011

Stent expansion methods

Three approaches:
(i) ignoring the balloon and applying an increasing uniform pressure directly on the stent inner surface.
(ii) accounting for balloon-stent interaction and enforcing a radial
displacement-driven process on a cylindrical balloon (using rigid body surface RSURFU).
(iii) accounting for balloon-stent interaction and applying an increasing uniform pressure inside of balloon (using hydrostatic element or surface).

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