Improved resistance to wear, delamination and posterior loading fatigue damage of electron beam irradiated, melt-annealed, highly crosslinked UHMWPE knee inserts

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn , Issue 1445, 2004, Pages 59-72

  Yao, Jian Q ^a   Blanchard, Cheryl R ^a   Lu, Xin ^a   Laurent, Michel P ^a   Johnson, Todd S ^a   Gilbertson, Leslie N ^a   Swarts, Dale F ^a   Crowninshield, Roy D ^a  

^a ZIMMER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosslinked polyethylene; Delamination; Fatigue; Knee; UHMWPE; Wear

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; DELAMINATION; ELECTRON IRRADIATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; JOINT PROSTHESES; MATERIALS TESTING; WEAR OF MATERIALS; WEAR RESISTANCE;

DELAMINATION RESISTANCE; HIGHLY CROSSLINKED ULTRAHIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE KNEE INSERTS; KNEE; POSTERIOR LOADING FATIGUE DAMAGE;

ULTRAHIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 1342291269     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1520/stp11922s     Document Type: Article

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