Impact of some environmental conditions on the tensile, creep-recovery, relaxation, melting and crystallinity behaviour of UHMWPE-GUR 410-medical grade

Materials and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4112-4119

  Mourad, A H I ^a   Fouad, H ^b   Elleithy, Rabeh ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Creep recovery; Environmental performance; Relaxation; UHMWPE GUR 410

Indexed keywords

APPLIED LOADS; CREEP STRAIN; CRYSTALLINITY; DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; FRACTURE STRAIN; MELTING TEMPERATURES; NAOH SOLUTIONS; PERMANENT STRAIN; PRE-HEAT TREATMENT; QUASI-STATIC; RELAXATION; SODIUM HYDROXIDES; UHMW-PE; UHMWPE-GUR 410; UV IRRADIATION; VIRGIN MATERIALS;

CREEP; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; HEAT TREATMENT; IRRADIATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MELTING; MELTING POINT; NONMETALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; POLYETHYLENES; SODIUM; STRAIN;

CREEP RESISTANCE;

EID: 67649394113     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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