RINA at Sim-AM 2019 conference

I coauthored the paper entitled “A combined approach of numerical simulation and additive manufacturing (AM) technique for in-silico and in-vitro testing of a 3D printing-based aortic polymeric heart valve”, which was presented during the “II International Conference on Simulation for Additive Manufacturing” (Sim-AM 2019) held in Pavia (Italy) in September.

In this work RINA contributed to the set-up of the numerical procedure employed to simulate the unsteady behavior of a heart valve during the cardiac cycle. The transient kinematics of the real device, a polymeric aortic device manufactured through a 3D printing process and spray deposition technique, was assigned using a mesh morphing method based on the radial basis function (RBF) framework. We got promising results that made the proposed computational strategy a good candidate for determining the performances of such a heart device.

This work represents another step that paved the way to the attainment of a European Union’s funding to develop an ITN-EID Marie Sk?odowska-Curie project dealing with biomechanics and Industry 4.0 topics. RINA will be engaged in such a project for 4 years as from January 2020, so follow us to keep updated on the selection of our Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) as well as project headway.