Computational methods for the aortic heart valve and its replacements

R Zakerzadeh, MC Hsu, MS Sacks - Expert review of medical …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Replacement with a prosthetic device remains a major treatment option for the
patients suffering from heart valve disease, with prevalence growing resulting from an …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanics of the tricuspid valve—From clinical diagnosis/treatment, in-vivo and in-vitro investigations, to patient-specific biomechanical modeling

CH Lee, DW Laurence, CJ Ross, KE Kramer, AR Babu… - Bioengineering, 2019 - mdpi.com
Proper tricuspid valve (TV) function is essential to unidirectional blood flow through the right
side of the heart. Alterations to the tricuspid valvular components, such as the TV annulus …

A contact formulation based on a volumetric potential: Application to isogeometric simulations of atrioventricular valves

D Kamensky, F Xu, CH Lee, J Yan, Y Bazilevs… - Computer methods in …, 2018 - Elsevier
This work formulates frictionless contact between solid bodies in terms of a repulsive
potential energy term and illustrates how numerical integration of the resulting forces is …

Patient-specific bicuspid aortic valve biomechanics: a magnetic resonance imaging integrated fluid–structure interaction approach

M Emendi, F Sturla, RP Ghosh, M Bianchi… - Annals of biomedical …, 2021 - Springer
Congenital bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) consists of two fused cusps and represents a major
risk factor for calcific valvular stenosis. Herein, a fully coupled fluid–structure interaction (FSI) …

A viscoelastic constitutive model for human femoropopliteal arteries

W Zhang, M Jadidi, SA Razian, GA Holzapfel… - Acta biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
High failure rates present challenges for surgical and interventional therapies for peripheral
artery disease of the femoropopliteal artery (FPA). The FPA's demanding biomechanical …

Energy-oriented maintenance decision-making for sustainable manufacturing based on energy saving window

T **a, L **, S Du, L **ao, E Pan - Journal of …, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In recent years, the industry's responsibility to join in sustainable manufacturing becomes
huge, while innovating sustainability has been a new trend. Industrial enterprises are …

FEBio FINESSE: An open-source finite element simulation approach to estimate in vivo heart valve strains using shape enforcement

DW Laurence, PM Sabin, AM Sulentic… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose Finite element simulations are an enticing tool to evaluate heart valve function;
however, patient-specific simulations derived from 3D echocardiography are hampered by …

Bayesian optimization-based inverse finite element analysis for atrioventricular heart valves

CJ Ross, DW Laurence, A Aggarwal, MC Hsu… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2024 - Springer
Inverse finite element analysis (iFEA) of the atrioventricular heart valves (AHVs) can provide
insights into the in-vivo valvular function, such as in-vivo tissue strains; however, there are …

Patient-specific inverse modeling of in vivo cardiovascular mechanics with medical image-derived kinematics as input data: concepts, methods, and applications

JH Bracamonte, SK Saunders, JS Wilson, UT Truong… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Inverse modeling approaches in cardiovascular medicine are a collection of methodologies
that can provide non-invasive patient-specific estimations of tissue properties, mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Strain energy density as a Gaussian process and its utilization in stochastic finite element analysis: Application to planar soft tissues

A Aggarwal, BS Jensen, S Pant, CH Lee - Computer methods in applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Data-based approaches are promising alternatives to the traditional analytical constitutive
models for solid mechanics. Herein, we propose a Gaussian process (GP) based …