... representative of the severe end of the clinical range were diamond stylus-ruled onto the surface of polished stainless steel plates. These ruled plates were then worn reciprocally against polyethylene pins (both conventional and highly cross-linked) at traverse angles varied parametrically relative...

.... An understanding of the characteristics of these filters is desirable in order to develop better designs. Methods : A computational fluid dynamical study of the flow over an unoccluded stainless steel Greenfield Vena Cava filter (Boston Scientific, Watertown, MA) to determine its properties has been performed...

... the jaw opening and the grasping force. The optimized design is then modeled to simulate the stresses encountered in the scissors mode. A 5.0 mm diameter stainless steel prototype is fabricated using electro-discharge machining and is shown to grasp and cut successfully. 08 04 2005 08 07 2005...

... a 0.8-mm tantalum ball and a stainless steel suture. Ten double-looped tendon grafts were passed through tibial tunnels drilled in bovine tibias and fixed with a tibial fixation device. Two tendon markers were sewn to one tendon bundle of each graft and the grafts were cyclically loaded for 225,000...