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Coronary stents are used to re-establish the vascular lumen and flow conditions within the coronary arteries; the typical thickness of a stent strut is 100 μm, and average grain sizes of approximately 25 μm exist in stainless steel stents. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of strut size on the stress strain behavior of 316 L stainless steel. Other materials have shown a size dependence at the micron size scale; however, at present there are no studies that show a material property size dependence in coronary stents. Electropolished stainless steel stent struts within the size range of 60–500 μm were tensile tested. The results showed that within the size range of coronary stent struts a size dependent stress–strain relationship is required to describe the material. Finite element models of the final phase of fracture, i.e., void growth models, explained partially the reason for this size effect. This study demonstrated that a size based stress–strain relationship must be used to describe the tensile behavior material of 316 L stainless steel at the size scale of coronary stent struts. © 2003 Biomedical Engineering Society.
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Murphy, B.P., Savage, P., McHugh, P.E. et al. The Stress–Strain Behavior of Coronary Stent Struts is Size Dependent. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 31, 686–691 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1114/1.1569268
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