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- Title
Automatic Formation Techniques of Woven Conical Vascular Graft.
- Authors
MENG Fenye; LI Yuling; MA Yanxue; WANG Rizhuan; CUI Yunhua
- Abstract
Conical vascular tubes are of strong demand owing to their formed shape and excellent characters to mimic human blood vessels. In this study, the automatic shuttle loom and computer aided design (CAD) system were customized to prepare a conical vascular graft. Meanwhile, the weaving principle of a conical vascular graft was identified in terms of the lift-drop front rest, and the geometrical relations were established among the cloth fell, front rest and back rest. Also, the change of weft density from the lift-drop motion of the front rest was analyzed, and a strategy was established to compensate the offset of weft density by changing the taken-up length. Afterwards, the proposed weaving principles were demonstrated by weaving a conical vascular graft on the customized shuttle loom.
- Subjects
VASCULAR grafts; BLOOD vessels; VEIN transplantation; ARTERIAL grafts; ENDOTHELIAL seeding
- Publication
Journal of Donghua University (English Edition), 2017, Vol 34, Issue 6, p751
- ISSN
1672-5220
- Publication type
Article