Fig. 1
From: Micromechanical and Ultrastructural Properties of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
© 1999 Nikolaos Kontopodis, Konstantinos Tzirakis, Emmanouil Tavlas, Stella Lioudaki and Christos Ioannou. Originally published in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm—From Basic Research to Clinical Practice under CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.76121
Von Mises stress distribution in two AAA’s. The top images demonstrate a AAA with a focal area of high stress in the posterior wall. The bottom images demonstrate a AAA with a more uniform wall stress distribution.