Development of an experimental bench for the

study mechanical behavior of coronary stent

PROJ703-Collective Project-Midterm Meeting
Project Owner: Manuel Lagache 
Done By: Ali Salman           
 Ali Lambachri     
 • Introduction

• Project Context and Objectives

• Problem Identification

• Proposed Design
OUTLINE
• Activities

• Difficulties

• Project Management

• Future Prospective
 Introduction
• What are cardiovascular diseases?

• What are the symptoms?

• How hazardous they are?

• How can we treat cardiovasular

complications ?
• Stenting as an interventional
solution

• Stents characteristics
 • contribute to the development of

an experimental bench

• provide cardiologists, crucial

Project Context
information on the mechanical

characteristics of a stent

• choice during surgery

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Project Signification
• Stenting limitations and complications risk
• Necessity of biomechanical assessment

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 • Identify the common dimensional parameters of
bend testing and radial force testing

• Identify testing methodologies and specifications

Overall Project  • Select feasible materials and components for

Objectives bending stiffness and radial force tests

mechanisms.

• Finding solutions Engineering standards and

implementing them

• Proposing the first prototype for Bending stiffness

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 • Biomedical standards compliance 

• Geometrical, and dimensional

constraints of the specimen

Overall • High sensitivity to mechanical

vibrations, friction forces,
Problematic
moments, torques and dynamic
forces that can alter the desired
physical output measurements
from sensors to a less accurate or
damaged output.
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Concurrent solutions comparison

Three-point bending test Four-point bending test

Proposed Design: Three-
point bending machine

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Radial Force Test

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Architecture Proposed Design

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Material and Components Selection

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 Frame

Table 2:Comparison between two types of materials for the AM frame with 1-10 scale
  (1 refer to bad /10 refer to excellent)

Frame
Design Cost Availability Manufacturability Performance Weight Sustainability ∑
for: total
Steel 7 6 5 5 2 4 29
Aluminum 5 8 7 8 5 7 40

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Displacement
Sensors
• Photonic Sensor

• CDD Camera

• Non-Contacting Optical Sensor

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 • Dynamometer
Force Sensors • Cell Load

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 Meetings    

• Project Owner Meetings

• Meeting Records
(Written/Voice Records)
• Personal Staff Meetings 

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Bibliographic Research:
Tools and
Methodologies
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Information Literacy

IDENTIFY FINDING EVALUATE APPLY ACKNOWLEDGME

RESOURCES NT

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 Finding Resources

Keywords Search Engines

Mesh Stent Google
Bench Test Google Scholar
Displacement Sensors Databases
Frame Wiley
Bending Stiffness HAL USMB
Radial Force ScienceDirect
Mechanical Characteristics Meta Crawler

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Literature Review

• Find relevant concurrent solutions

• Analyze their advantages and
limitations

• Draw a comparative table

• Store references in Zotero

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 Self-training:                             
  
Scientific and Technical Aspects

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 Scientific and
Technical Aspects
• Online Courses

• Websites

• Software (GANTT Chart,
Free- Plane, CAMEO)

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Scientific and Technical Aspects

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CAMEO: User Diagram

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CAMEO: BDD Diagram

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CAMEO: Requirement Diagram

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Difficulties
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Difficulties

1. Design Difficulties

• Implementation of sensors

• Tube material selection

• Small range measurements

• Synchronous data acquisition

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Difficulties

2. Logistics and Financial Difficulties

• Virtual meeting limitation

• Funding 

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 How the group
is Organized and Managed

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Free Plane

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GANTT Project

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What's Later

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