Biomathematics Seminar
Tuesday 4/7/08

Speaker: Stefan Seelecke, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, NCSU

Title: Smart Materials in Biomedical Applications

Abstract:
The talk will give an overview of active materials (shape memory
alloys, shape memory polymers, piezoceramic materials), which
increasingly find their way into biomedical applications. 

A brief approach to modeling based on unifying free energy concepts
is followed by a number of exemplary applications, which explain the
advantages of the materials and illustrate these by finite element
simulations.


The examples cover:

       a) a shape memory-based novel smart inhaler system for
          targeted drug delivery,

       b) biomedical stents/stent grafts for the repair of abdominal
          aortic aneurysms (AAA).