Comparative fatigue behavior and toughness of remelted and annealed highly crosslinked polyethylenes

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B Applied Biomaterials

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 380-390

  Medel, Francisco J ^a   Pena P ^a   Cegoñino, José ^a   Gomez Barrena, E ^b   Puertolas J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Annealing; Fatigue resistance; Fracture resistance; Highly crosslinked polyethylenes; Remelting; UHMWPE

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CROSSLINKING; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; REMELTING;

CROSSLINK DENSITY; HIGHLY CROSSLINKED POLYETHYLENES; STABILIZATION CONDITIONS;

ULTRAHIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENES;

POLYETHYLENE DERIVATIVE;

ACETABULUM; ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; CROSSLINK DENSITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; EXERCISE TEST; JOINT STABILITY; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LONG TERM CARE; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STRESS FRACTURE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; HEAT; HUMANS; JOINT PROSTHESIS; POLYETHYLENES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 35548949425     PISSN: 15524973     EISSN: 15524981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.b.30807     Document Type: Article

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