Nitinol Fatigue: A Review of Microstructures and Mechanisms
In this Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance paper published in February 2011, Alan Pelton reviews the fundamental principles Nitinol fatigue from a microstructural perspective. ...continue reading
Runciman: Multiaxial fatigue and life prediction
Presented at SMST-2010, and now published in the journal Biomaterials, Amanda Runciman and her collaborators present new studies on the multiaxial fatigue performance of Nitinol. ...continue reading
Self Expanding Nitinol Stents
By the year 2003, Nitinol stents played a dominant role in the treatment of peripheral vascular disease. A great variety of designs had been launched into clinical service, some more successfully than others. This review was authored by the familiar NDC trio of Dieter Stoeckel, Alan Pelton, and Tom Duerig, and published in European Radiology. ...continue reading
SMA – Smart Materials for Medical Applications
In this paper from the proceedings of SPIE, Tom Duerig, Dieter Stoeckel, and David Johnson present some basic information on the properties of superelasticity and shape memory exhibited by Nitinol. The authors describe vascular applications including stents and filters, and some testing and characterization techniques applicable to such devices. This paper is notable in its ...continue reading
An Overview of Nitinol Medical Applications
When mining our server logs in preparation for creating NitinolUniversity.com, we found that two articles in our literature database had far and away more hits than any other. So, it seems fitting that the first paper in our spotlight should be this 1999 classic by our own Tom Duerig, Alan Pelton, and Dieter Stöckel. Though ...continue reading
