Fatigue and fracture III

Thursday, May 7, 2026: 1:15 PM-3:15 PM
Prof. William LePage, University of Tulsa, Dr. Maximilien E. Launey, G.RAU Inc and Dr. Jason D. Weaver, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
1:15 PM
Small crack growth thresholds for nitinol in fully reversed ultra-high cycle fatigue, comparing standard and VAR/EBR wire
Dr. Andrew Roiko, Medtronic; Dr. Jason D Weaver, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Dr. Brian T. Berg, Boston Scientific Corporation
1:35 PM
Stress and Fracture Mechanics Approach to Fatigue Life Prediction of Nitinol Medical Devices: An Inclusion Analysis
Dr. Maximilien E. Launey, G.RAU Inc.; Mr. Nicholas D'Attilio, G.RAU Inc.; Mr. Payman Saffari, Engage Medical Device Services; Prof. William LePage, University of Tulsa; Dr. Philipp Hempel, G.RAU Inc.; Mr. Sean M. Pelton, G.RAU Inc.; Mr. Jochen Ulmer, Euroflex GmbH; Dr. Michael R. Mitchell, Mechanics & Materials Consulting, LLC; Dr. Alan R. Pelton, Stanford University, G.RAU Inc.
1:55 PM
Fatigue Life Prediction Methodology for Superelastic Nitinol Implantable Medical Devices
Dr. Hengchu Cao, Edwards Lifesciences; Dr. Ming H. Wu, Edwards Lifesciences; Mr. Paul Schmidt, Edwards Lifesciences
2:15 PM
Statistical Evaluation of Nitinol Fatigue Using for Both Single and Multi-Amplitude Conditions
Dr. Paul Briant, Ph.D., P.E., Exponent, Inc.; Dr. Sarah Easley, PhD, PE, Exponent, Inc.; Dr. David Christianson, Exponent, Inc.
2:35 PM
The Effect of Fatigue Cycling off the Upper and the Lower Plateau Stresses in Superelastic Nitinol
Dr. Louis G Malito, Ph.D., P.E., Resonetics; Mr. Kyle Chapman, Resonetics; Mr. Ryan Buesseler, Quartus Engineering; Dr. Andrew Pequegnat, Resonetics; Dr. Scott Robertson, Ph.D., Resonetics
2:55 PM
Bending-fatigue-resistant hierarchical NiTi shape memory alloy
Dr. Kai Yan, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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