Relationship between fracture toughness and impact strength of acrylic bone cement

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 451-455

  Lewis, Gladius ^a   Mladsi, Scott ^b  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b Smith and Nephew Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acrylic bone cement; Ethylene oxide; Gamma irradiation

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC CEMENT; BONE CEMENT; ETHYLENE OXIDE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; FRACTURE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STRENGTH;

ACRYLICS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GAMMA RAYS; IRRADIATION; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

ACRYLIC BONE CEMENT; GAMMA IRRADIATION; IMPACT STRENGTH;

BONE CEMENT;

EID: 0033622595     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/critrevbiomedeng.v28.i34.170     Document Type: Conference Paper

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