The venous stent team has been working over the past months to create stent designs on Solidworks and develop testing protocols using ANSYS. ANSYS is being used for flow, pinching load, and hoop stress testing. Some preliminary designs are shown on the Media Page.
Solidworks design and ANSYS testing are being done simultaneously to optimize stent variables such as: overall shape, ring spacing, strut thickness, strut width, and shape/number/location of ring connections. These parameters need to be optimized while still meeting the design specifications for surface area and radial resistive force.
The team has also been working to finalize what materials they will be needing for fabrication of the stent model and for physical verification tests.
