Improving the reliability of the ceramic-on-ceramic wear couple in THR

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn , Issue 1346, 1999, Pages 173-185

  Richter, Herbert G ^a   Willmann, Gerd ^a   Weick, Katrin ^b  

^a CERAMTEC AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; BIOMATERIALS; CYCLIC LOADS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TENSILE STRESS; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

CERAMIC CUP INSERT; CERAMIC LINER; CYCLIC FATIGUE; MECHANICAL STABILITY; TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT;

HIP PROSTHESES;

EID: 0032677562     PISSN: 10403094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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