Hello everyone,
I wanted to share with you some of the content and experiences from this year's SIMULIA Community Conference, in particular, those relating to the life sciences industry.
"...this year’s SCC was by far one of the best conferences I’ve attended ever, including all of the academic conferences I’ve attended in the past while in grad school...the conference re-energized me in my work and opened new paths for solving many current problems I’m tackling now..."
- Kris Westbrook, Senior R&D Engineer, Boston Scientific
Just as reflected in Kris' comments above, the 2012 SCC turned out to be a great event for our customers in the life sciences industry. We had record number of attendees from the vibrant industry, outstanding customer presentations highlighting important industrial applications of SIMULIA products and a very informative special interest group discussion featuring keynote presentation "Enabling Faster and Better Medical Device Development and Evaluation via Computational Modeling and Simulation: CDRH perspective" by Dr. Tina Morrison from the FDA. The conference is not only a great forum for scientific discussions but also an excellent networking opportunity for fans of Abaqus and Isight in the life sciences industry and academia.
You can always find past SCC papers in our resource center, but here are few life sciences papers I'd like to highlight for the 2012 SCC.
Atul Gupta, Senior Principal R&D Engineer, Medtronic Endovascular Therapies
Manufacturing tolerances of medical devices are much more stringent than most other products. In this paper, the importance of different manufacturing tolerances were studied using a combination of probabilistic analysis using Isignt and stress analysis using Abaqus to identify design parameters that need to be controlled most rigorously.
Hengchu Cao, Director of Engineering, Edwards Lifesciences LLC
For medical device companies that are developing life-saving implants for patients with heart diseases, a virtual heart model that allows them to evaluate the performance and safety of these devices has been the objective of many analysts and researchers. Read this paper and see how a beating heart is simulated using a combination of advanced material properties and ingenious applications of thermal stress analysis to achieve activation of the heart muscles.
Stepwise Validated Finite Element Model of the Human Lumbar Spine
Dana Coombs, Engineering Manager, DePuy Synthes
With numerous joints and various hard and soft tissue surrounding these joints, spine models have been known for their complexity. Validation of such models become an even tougher challenge due to the large number of parameters involved. Learn how a complex lumbar spine FEA model is validated using patient-specific in vitro test data from this collaborative work between DePuy Synthes and University of Denver.
Finite Element Analysis of Head Impact in Contact
Eyal Bar-Kochba, Brown University
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the world’s major causes of death and disability. To aid companies in designing safer and improved protective gear and to aid the medical community in producing improved quantitative TBI diagnosis and assessment tools, a multiscale finite element model of the human brain, head and neck is being developed. Check out this paper to find out more about this collaboration among Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital and SIMULIA.
