TY  - CHAP
A1  - Bhattarai, Aroj
A1  - Frotscher, Ralf
A1  - Sora, M.-C.
A1  - Staat, Manfred
ED  - Onate, E.
T1  - A 3D finite element model of the female pelvic floor for the reconstruction of urinary incontinence
T2  - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI) ; 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) ; 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI) ; July 20-25, 2014, Barcelona
Y1  - 2014
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Frotscher, Ralf
A1  - Koch, Jan-Peter
A1  - Raatschen, Hans-Jürgen
A1  - Staat, Manfred
ED  - Onate, E.
T1  - Evaluation of a computational model for drug action on cardiac tissue
T2  - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI) ; 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) ; 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI) ; July 20 - 25, 2014, Barcelona
Y1  - 2014
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Frotscher, Ralf
A1  - Staat, Manfred
T1  - Stresses produced by different textile mesh implants in a tissue equivalent
JF  - BioNanoMaterials
N2  - Two single-incision mini-slings used for treating urinary incontinence in women are compared with respect to the stresses they produce in their surrounding tissue. In an earlier paper we experimentally observed that these implants produce considerably different stress distributions in a muscle tissue equivalent. Here we perform 2D finite element analyses to compare the shear stresses and normal stresses in the tissue equivalent for the two meshes and to investigate their failure behavior. The results clearly show that the Gynecare TVT fails for increasing loads in a zipper-like manner because it gradually debonds from the surrounding tissue. Contrary to that, the tissue at the ends of the DynaMesh-SIS direct may rupture but only at higher loads. The simulation results are in good agreement with the experimental observations thus the computational model helps to interpret the experimental results and provides a tool for qualitative evaluation of mesh implants.
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bnm-2014-0003
SN  - 2191-4672 (E-Journal); 2193-066X (E-Journal); 0011-8656 (Print); 1616-0177 (Print); 2193-0651 (Print)
VL  - 15
IS  - 1-2
SP  - 25
EP  - 30
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  -