The lecturer at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Technology, Dr. Saad Mahmoud Ali / the scientific assistant of the Department, published a scientific research in the Journal of Materials Science and Engineering, which is a discreet international journal of Scopes reiters entitled “Design and Modeling of a Soft Artificial Heart by Using the SolidWorks and ANSYS”.

The research was published in volume (671), Issue (1), January 2020, whereby the researcher showed that investigating the biomechanical behavior of a novel soft artificial heart is a hard task as such things are very complicated in terms of material properties, geometry and engineering performances. The work focused on developing, designing and modeling a new generation of industrial heart that is low cost, easily operable, and in the size and low energy consumption, and durable soft artificial heart intended to replace an original heart permanently while the age of the best produced artificial heart is less than five years. Numerical simulation and investigation of the artificial heart were implemented using SolidWorks 17 and ANSYS 15.7, with a Multiphysics static structural model, fluent fluid flow (CFX), and fluent fluid poly-flow (CFD) analysis systems used in order to determine the dynamic response and effects of pressurized blood on heart performance during blood flow cycles. The biomechanical modeling and analysis of the soft artificial heart were implemented using the finite element modelling in ANSYS R18.0. To improve and verify the biomechanical performance, Design Expert 11.0 software and a response surface methodology (RSM) technique were used. The simulation results showed that as maximum levels of absolute pressure were applied on the ventricles and air pressurized chambers, the performance of the designed soft heart remained to perform in complete secure. The results also showed that strain energy, total deformation, maximum principal elastic strain, stress and fatigue safety factors, and fatigue life all reached their optimum values when using the SIBSTAR 103T with polyetherimide/silicone (PSN4) Nano-composite elastomers.