Wear properties of alumina/zirconia composite ceramics for joint prostheses measured with an end-face apparatus

Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 263-270

  Morita, Yusuke ^a   Nakata, Kenichi ^b   Kim, Yoon Ho ^c   Sekino, Tohru ^c   Niihara, Koichi ^c   Ikeuchi, Ken ^b  

^a OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

alumina; Artificial joint; composite ceramics; flat contact; zirconia

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRESS ANALYSIS; WEAR OF MATERIALS; ZIRCONIA;

ALUMINA MONOLITH; COMPOSITE CERAMICS; JOINT PROSTHESIS; WEAR TEST;

ALUMINA;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; ZIRCONIUM OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CERAMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; VELOCITY;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRICTION; HARDNESS; HIP PROSTHESIS; LUBRICATION; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; PRESSURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 12944294339     PISSN: 09592989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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