Premature fracture of a stainless steel 316L orthopaedic plate implant by alternative episodes of fatigue and cleavage decoherence

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1346-1350

  Triantafyllidis, G K ^a   Kazantzis, A V ^a   Karageorgiou, K T ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cleavage; Failure; Fatigue striations; Orthopaedic support plate; SS 316L

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC LOADS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MORPHOLOGY; ORTHOPEDICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

CLEAVAGE DECOHERENCE; FATIGUE DECOHERENCE; FATIGUE STRIATIONS;

STAINLESS STEEL;

CYCLIC LOADS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MORPHOLOGY; ORTHOPEDICS; STAINLESS STEEL; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 34247633042     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2006.11.010     Document Type: Article

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