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Nitinol for Medical Devices

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
  • Identify the reasons for Nitinol’s unique properties
  • Describe how Nitinol performs in a variety of conditions
  • Describe basic Nitinol device manufacturing principles
  • Recognize how to apply the benefits of Nitinol’s properties to real world applications

Who Should Attend:
Manufacturing Engineers, Quality Engineers, Device Designers, Clinicians, Biomedical Engineers, Technicians, and Test Engineers who are working with Nitinol or who would like to become more versed in the technology. The course should be of interest to those in industry, government or academia.

Outline:
  1. Shape Memory and Superelasticity
    Origin of Effects
    Transformation Temperatures
    Mechanical Properties and their Relationships to Transformation Temperatures
  2. Processing
    Melting and Effects of Impurities
    Hot Working, Cold Working and Heat Treating Processes
    Influence of Cold Work and Heat Treatment on Transformation Temperatures and Mechanical Properties
    Passivation
  3. Designing with Shape Memory and Superelasticity
    Specifying Nitinol Materials, Including an Overview of Relevant ASTM Standards
    Types of Applications of Nitinol
    Case Studies of Engineering Challenges of Selected Nitinol Medical Devices
  4. Environmental Effects
    Corrosion and Biocompatibility
    Fatigue
    Hydrogen Embrittlement


About the Instructor:

Scott Russell is Founder and President of Benchmark Nitinol Device Technologies, LLC and co-founder and CTO of Confirmd LLC. Russell has been working in the Nitinol technology and medical device fields for over 20 years and brings a rare combination of business and technical experience to the medical device marketplace. His experience includes alloy development, medical device design, process development, test method development, clinical research, business development, sales, and marketing.