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Normalized cylinder dimension and stress at physiological pressure.
| Ascending Aorta |
Sinotubular Junction |
Sinus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diameter | 22mm | 24mm | 26mm |
| Thickness | 2.1mm | 1.9mm | 1.5mm |
| Material parameters | |||
| K1 | 1.1 | 14.1 | 18.5 |
| K2 | 29.9 | 47.0 | 55.4 |
| Angle | 33.9 | 28.2 | 33.1 |
| Average stress under mean physiological pressure | |||
| Circumferential | 147.8kPa | 185.3 kPa | 157.8 kPa |
| Longitudinal | 66.7 kPa | 94.9 kPa | 108.2 kPa |
