Test method for the assessment of fretting at the femoral head and neck taper interface

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn 1301, Issue , 1997, Pages 104-113

  McLean, Terry W ^a   Lambert, Richard D ^a  

^a Smith and Nephew Orthopaedics   (United States)

Author keywords

Cobalt; Corrosion; Fretting; Modular hip; Morse taper; Titanium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345093168     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1520/stp12025s     Document Type: Article

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