Notched stress-strain behavior of a conventional and a sequentially annealed highly crosslinked UHMWPE

Biomaterials

Volumn 29, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 4575-4583

  Sobieraj, Michael C ^a,b   Kurtz, Steven M ^c   Wang, A ^d   Manley, Michael M ^d   Rimnac, Clare M ^a,b  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STRYKER ORTHOPAEDICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosslinking; Notch; Tensile properties; UHMWPE

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; NOTCH; TENSILE PROPERTIES; UHMWPE;

JOINT PROSTHESES;

ULTRAHIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENES;

ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; GAMMA IRRADIATION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TENSILE STRENGTH;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BISMUTH; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; MATERIALS TESTING; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; POLYETHYLENES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SALICYLATES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 53149092429     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2008.08.010     Document Type: Article

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