Project Overview

For my junior project, I will be working with a stent designer and engineer at Medtronic. We have agreed upon teachign me to create and design a track for a 2.5(18mm) stent. After mapping out this, I will be inputting my design into a 3D printing computer program. Once the track has been made, I will test it with a test stent to see if I am successful.

This is what the test stent tracks are suppose to replicate. Tracks are
used to test the force it takes to make a stent get past all the turns and how
efficiently it is able to do so.

So far, I have spent most of my time while working on this project, learning all the background information necessary to design a track. I have been watching videos on how stents work, reading about the already made stent tracks, and testing various mechanism hand on while at Medtronic.

This is a simplified picture of what a heart stent looks like in the heart once
it is released. Not all stents look like this, though, because new designs
are constantly being produced.

 After I gain a better understanding about the mobility of stents and the basics of how to design a stent tracks, I will begin on the track design. I need to learn more about the dimension of how tracks need to be to be helpful for testing.

This the device that is used to release a stent from a compact state to the
expanded state that allows it to help the viens and arotry keep its shape.