Finite Element Analysis of a Mechanical Heart Valve in Assembly

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The Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve (BMHV) has been the most successful replacement mechanical heart valve, and is currently the most commonly implanted mechanical valve. Although the BMHV is an improvement over previous mechanical heart valves, there are still serious associated complications with its use that must be eliminated. After the completion of the processing and surface modification, heart valve ring and heart valve leaflets constitute a single whole with mechanical method to achieve its function process. In order to ensure that the heart valve is stable and reliable in service, it is particularly important to improve the assembly quality. The theoretical analysis and simulation used of ANSYS Workbench software for the behavior of the heart valve assembly have been done, the experimental results were verified by testing apparatus, which is a helpful tool used to simulate the new structure of the heart valve assembly, and play a certain significance to improve the accuracy of the assembly.

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