Research
Optimisation of a Polymeric Heart Valve
![Injection Moulded Heart Valve.](/content/research/projects/1590/images/Heart%20valve%20small.jpg)
Prosthetic heart valves must be both durable and bio-compatible. The Structured Materials group at Cambridge University has developed an injection moulded polymeric heart valve whose fatigue performance is being evaluated. Prototypes must exceed a billion cycles in accelerated fatigue tests, to ensure a reliable lifetime prediction in service.