Affiliation:
1. Toyohashi University of Technology
2. Ibaraki University
Abstract
To better understand the behavior of stresses generated inside a kidney stone by direct pulse impingement during extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL), numerical analyses are performed in this work. LS-DYNA, an explicit Finite Element code for non-linear dynamic analysis is employed to investigate the effect of stone geometry to the stress field evolution inside the stone when subjected to short pulse wave. Circular disks with parts removed from the front and the back are used
to model the stones that assumed have already had initial fracture. The other variation of spherical geometry such as ellipse is also considered in the numerical calculation.
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,General Materials Science
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