Week 3

While still researching our group accomplished certain things this week.

1. We started a rough draft drawing of what we want our valve to look like.
2. We taught each other the research we individually found.
3. We also are trying to see if it is possible for us to edit our design to make it able to be inserted through a  non-invasive surgery.

The rough draft

-The design for our valve is a mechanical design. We also decided to use a 3 leaflet valve design because of it's advantages mentioned in the Week 2 - Research.

Source: http://roscardioinvest.ru/eng/index.php?id_subpart=5

-The group met outside of lab to discuss the next steps for the design process of the valve. A new sketch was drawn up to help visualize the valve before drawing it in Creo. Here is the two new pictures of the design.

-The first picture shows a more in depth idea of what we plan to draw up in Creo Parametric, while the second picture shows different designs for the possibility of inserting the valve without opening up the patients chest.