Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Novel Blended Bifurcated Stent Grafts with Taper to Improve Hemodynamic Performance

Table 2

Displacement forces (N) acting on two types of blended bifurcated stent graft (BBSG) under various degrees of the taper.

	Conventional BBSG			Deflected BBSG
Taper (mm)	17–10	17–9	17–8	17–10	17–9	17–8
60 (mmHg)	0.78 ± 0.01	0.82 ± 0.01	0.87 ± 0.01	0.71 ± 0.01	0.74 ± 0.01	0.78 ± 0.01
80 (mmHg)	0.93 ± 0.01	0.96 ± 0.01	1.01 ± 0.01	0.89 ± 0.01	0.92 ± 0.01	0.96 ± 0.01
100 (mmHg)	1.12 ± 0.03	1.17 ± 0.01	1.24 ± 0.01	1.03 ± 0.01	1.07 ± 0.01	1.13 ± 0.01