. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 2011 Sep 8;11(5):715–729. doi: 10.1007/s10237-011-0345-8

Table 3.

Boundary conditions used as input to the finite element simulations

Simulation	Outer radius (latex), initial (mm)	Outer radius (foam + latex), final (mm)	Radial displacement, foam (mm)	Equivalent contact pressure (kPa)^a
1	2.21	2.36	0.242	1.9
2	2.26	2.65	0.532	3.53
3	2.27	2.44	0.322	1.95
4	2.21	2.46	0.342	2.75
5	2.245	2.62	0.502	3.5
6	2.165	2.335	0.237	2.3
7	2.21	2.265	0.147	0.75
8	2.085	2.14	0.022	0.82

The equivalent contact pressure is the pressure the foam exerts on the latex aneurysm model, and these values are used as input to the human aneurysm model