Study of hardness and roughness modification in explanted joint components

Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 251-261

  Torrisi, L ^a   Visco, A M ^a   Campo, N ^a   Rizzo, D ^b   Bombara, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b Istituto Ortopedico del Mezzogiorno d'Italia F Scalabrino   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HARDNESS; HEAVY IONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ION IMPLANTATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRESS ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

METAL-POLYMER INTERFACES; MICRO-HARDNESS MEASUREMENT (MHM); ROUGHNESS PROFILE ANALYSIS (RPA); STRESSED ZONE;

JOINT PROSTHESES;

POLYETHYLENE; POLYMER;

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; EXPLANT; FEMALE; HARDNESS; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRICTION; HARDNESS; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MATERIALS TESTING; POLYETHYLENES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 12844256486     PISSN: 09592989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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