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A simple method of estimating the stress acting on a bilaterally symmetric abdominal aortic aneurysm
1Department of Biological Functions and Engineering, Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan. yamada@life.kyutech.ac.jp
Abstract:
We extended a method of estimating the stress acting on an axisymmetric abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) under a load in vivo (Elger, D. F., Blackketter, D. M., Budwig, R. S., Johansen, K. H. (1996) The influence of shape on the stresses in model abdominal aortic aneurysms, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 118, pp. 326-32.) to bilaterally-symmetric AAAs, which are symmetric about the sagittal plane. Stresses were calculated along the anterior and posterior median lines of the AAA wall. Of the two force equilibrium equations, the Laplace equation held in this study. The longitudinal equilibrium was extended to hold by approximating the meridional tension and the directional cosine of the wall surface as constants along the circumference. The estimated stresses were compared with the results of a finite element analysis. Comparisons showed that the maximal principal stress, usually the circumferential stress or sometimes the meridional stress depending on location, sufficiently represented the wall stress. The proposed method provides a reasonable index for evaluating the rupture risk using the peak value of the maximal principal stress and its location without using the stress-free geometry and constitutive equation.
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