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Fatigue, Fracture, and Lifetime Prediction - Session I
Location: Merrill Hall (Asilomar Conference Grounds )
(Please check final room assignments on-site).
Session Description: The first session will focus on efforts to predict of fatigue lifetimes of medical devices. The second session will demonstrate the microstructural changes due to cyclic deformation and fracture mechanics-based techniques for propagation mechanisms.

Session Chair:Dr. M.R. Mitchell Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
9:40 AMA Fatigue Life Prediction Method for Finite Element Models of Nitinol Stents
9:55 AMAccelerated Fatigue Testing of Stent-Like Diamond Specimens
10:10 AMDesign, Analysis, and Testing of a Surrogate Nitinol Fatigue Specimen
10:25 AMNitinol Fatigue Investigation On Stent-Finish Specimens Using Tension-Tension Method
10:40 AMBreak
10:50 AMFatigue Life-Prediction for Nitinol Stents Under Tensile and Torsional Loading Conditions
11:05 AMStatistical Fatigue Life Analysis of Superelastic Material in Medical Devices
11:20 AMMicrostructural Evolution During Low-Cycle Fatigue of Nickel-Titanium Shape Memory Alloys Used for Endodontic Rotary Instruments
11:35 AMLunch