Defect initiation at subsurface grain boundary as a precursor of delamination in ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 276-284

  Shibata, Nobuyuki ^a   Tomita, Naohide ^b   Onmori, Naoki ^c   Kato, Koji ^c   Ikeuchi, Ken ^d  

^a NATL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delamination; Gamma irradiation; Grain boundary; Subsurface defect; Ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; DEGRADATION; DELAMINATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VITAMINS;

SURFACE ASPERITY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; FATIGUE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0344738773     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.10133     Document Type: Article

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