Subsidence of THA stems due to acrylic cement creep is extremely sensitive to interface friction

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1569-1575

  Verdonschot, Nico ^a   Huiskes, Rik ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acrylic cement; Creep; Subsidence; Total hip arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

ACRYLICS; BONE CEMENT; CREEP; DYNAMIC LOADS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUBSIDENCE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURGERY;

ACRYLIC CEMENT; TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY;

HIP PROSTHESES;

ACRYLIC CEMENT;

ARTICLE; FORCE; FRICTION; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

EID: 0030561029     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(96)80008-X     Document Type: Article

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