Morphology of in vitro generated ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene wear particles as a function of contact conditions and material parameters

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-69

  Landry, Michael E ^a   Blanchard, Cheryl R ^b   Mabrey, Jay D ^a   Wang, Xiaodu ^a   Agrawal, C Mauli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact stress; Orientation; Particles; UHMWPE; Wear

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); STRESS ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ULTRAHIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENES; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

CONTACT STRESS; TOTAL JOINT REPLACEMENTS;

JOINT PROSTHESES;

LUBRICATING AGENT; POLYETHYLENE; POLYMER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMPLANT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OSTEOLYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; STRESS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; HUMANS; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OSTEOLYSIS; POLYETHYLENES; SOLUTIONS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0033105468     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(1999)48:1<61::AID-JBM11>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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