Mechanical behavior study of abdominal aortic aneurysm created by the rat xenograft model

Mechanical behavior study of abdominal aortic aneurysm created by the rat xenograft model

Djamel DjellouliNaïm Jalal Amor Bouaricha Abdelaziz Bouchelaghem Mustapha Zidi* 

EA 7377 Bio-ingénierie, tissus et neuroplasticité (BIOTN), université Paris-Est-Créteil, faculté de médecine, 8, rue du Général-Sarrail, 94010 Créteil cedex, France

Laboratoire de mécanique industrielle, université Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, Algérie

Corresponding Author Email: 
djellouli_djamel@yahoo.fr; zidi@u-pec.fr
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45-56
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DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.3166/rcma.2017.00003
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Abstract: 

The objective of this paper is to study the mechanical behavior of the abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) created from the xenograft rat model. Based on uniaxial traction tests on arterial samples on the one hand, and histological analysis on the other, a finite element model is proposed. By considering the mechanical behavior of the AAA tissue as hyperelastic, isotropic and incompressible, the wall stresses are calculated. We show that the peak stress is localized where the thrombus created by the xenograft rat model is thinner.

Keywords: 

abdominal aorta aneurysm, xenograft rat model, wall stresses, finite element

1. Introduction
2. Matériel et méthode
3. Résultats et discussion
4. Limitations
5. Conclusion
Remerciements

Ces travaux ont été soutenus par le Programme Hubert Curien Tassili no 15MDU934 dans le cadre d’un partenariat franco-algérien.

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