Experimental characterisation on the behaviour of PLLA for stretch blowing moulding of bioresorbable vascular scaffolds

Huidong Wei; Gary Menary; Fraser Buchanan; Shiyong Yan; James Nixon

doi:10.1007/s12289-020-01539-y

Experimental characterisation on the behaviour of PLLA for stretch blowing moulding of bioresorbable vascular scaffolds

Huidong Wei, Gary Menary^*, Fraser Buchanan, Shiyong Yan, James Nixon

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Abstract

Processing tubes from poly (l-lactic acid) (PLLA) by stretch blow moulding (SBM) is used in the manufacture of bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS) to improve their mechanical performance. To better understand this processing technique, a novel experimental setup by free stretch blow inside a water bath was developed to visualise the tube forming process and analyse the deformation behaviour. PLLA tubes were heated, stretched and blown with no mould present inside a temperature-controlled water bath whilst recording the processing parameters (axial force, inflation pressure). The onset of pressure activation relative to the axial stretch was controlled deliberately to produce a simultaneous (SIM) or sequential (SEQ) mode of deformation. Real-time images of the tube during forming were captured using high speed cameras and the surface strain of the patterned tube was extracted using digital image correlation (DIC). The deformation characteristics of PLLA tubes in SBM was quantified by analysis of shape evolution, strain history and stress-strain relationship.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	375-389
Number of pages	15
Journal	International Journal of Material Forming
Volume	14
Issue number	3
Early online date	17 Jan 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12289-020-01539-y
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2021

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Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 691238 involving Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (Italy), University of Warwick (UK), Queen’s University Belfast (UK) and California Institute of Technology (US). The PhD scholarship was funded by Queen’s University Belfast and China Scholarship Council.

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DIC
Experimental characterisation
Free stretch blow
PLLA
Water bath

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