relation: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/218/
title: Laser Welding of a Stent
creator: Budd, C J
creator: Hewitt, Ian
creator: Mitchell, Sarah
creator: Coles, Chris
creator: Rankin, James
creator: Rodrigues, David
creator: O’Brien, Mick
creator: McKee, Sean
creator: Vynnycky, Michael
creator: King, John
creator: McGinty, Sean
subject: Materials
subject: Medical and pharmaceutical
description: We consider the problem of modelling the manufacture of a cylindrical Stent, in which layers of a plastic material are welded together by a Laser beam. We firstly set up the equations for this system and solve them by using a Finite Element method. We then look at various scalings which allow the equations to be simplified. The resulting equations are then solved analytically to obtain approximate solutions to the radial temperature profile and the averaged axial temperature profile.
date: 2008
type: Study Group Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/218/1/stent-1.pdf
identifier:   Budd, C J and Hewitt, Ian and Mitchell, Sarah and Coles, Chris and Rankin, James and Rodrigues, David and O’Brien, Mick and McKee, Sean and Vynnycky, Michael and King, John and McGinty, Sean  (2008) Laser Welding of a Stent.  [Study Group Report]