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BioMedical Engineering OnLine BioMed Central Research Open Access Stress analysis in a layered aortic arch model under pulsatile blood flow 1 2 2 Feng Gao , Masahiro Watanabe and Teruo Matsuzawa* Address: 1Graduate School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan and 2Center for Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan Email: Feng Gao - feng-g@jaist.ac.jp; Masahiro Watanabe - m-wata@jaist.ac.jp; Teruo Matsuzawa* - matuzawa@jaist.ac.jp * Corresponding author Published: 24 April 2006 Received: 29 December 2005 Accepted: 24 April 2006 BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2006, 5:25 doi:10.1186/1475-925X-5-25 This article is available from: /content/5/1/25 © 2006 Gao et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Many cardiovascular diseases, such as aortic dissection, frequently occur on the aortic arch and fluid-structure interactions play an important role in the cardiovascular system. Mechanical stress is crucial in the functioning of the cardiovascular system; therefore, stress analysis is a useful tool for u