Wear of shelf-aged UHMWPE acetabular liners

Wear

Volumn 225-229, Issue PART II, 1999, Pages 728-733

  Lee, Kwon Yong ^a   Lee, Keun Ho ^b  

^a Daegu University   (South Korea)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosslinking; Crystallinity; Gamma irradiation; Oxidation; Shelf aging; UHMWPE; Wear

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; BRITTLENESS; CRACK INITIATION; CROSSLINKING; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GAMMA RAYS; IRRADIATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; OXIDATION; ULTRAHIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENES; WEAR RESISTANCE;

CRYSTALLINITY; UNIDIRECTIONAL REPEAT PASS SLIDING TESTS;

WEAR OF MATERIALS;

IRRADIATION; JOINT; MEDICAL APPLICATION; POLYETHYLENE; WEAR;

EID: 0033490311     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1648(99)00027-7     Document Type: Article

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