Failure micromechanisms during uniaxial tensile fracture of conventional and highly crosslinked ultra-high molecular weight polyethylenes used in total joint replacements

Biomaterials

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 3947-3954

  Gencur, S J ^a   Rimnac, C M ^a   Kurtz, S M ^b,c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annealing; Crosslinking; Fracture toughness; Polyethylene; Remelting; UHMWPE

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; CROSSLINKING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DUCTILITY; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GAMMA RAYS; NUCLEATION; TENSILE TESTING; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

THERMAL PROCESSING;

BIOMATERIALS;

POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTALLIZATION; EVALUATION; GAMMA RADIATION; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MATERIALS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSION; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038016670     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(03)00277-1     Document Type: Article

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