Smart Materials for Medical Applications

This thesis describes materials which react to external stimuli. These materials are know as Smart materials. The thesis provides an overview of these materials and their use in the field of medicine. A lot of attentions is paid to Nitinol as the most significant representative of Smart materials. The thesis brings a simulation of using shape memory effect of Nitinol staple for bone fracture fixation. This simulation use the method of finite elements for solving and it is done in ANSYS modeling software. The simulation has only demonstrational purpose