Improved fatigue life of acrylic bone cements reinforced with zirconia fibers

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 504-511

  Kane, Robert J ^a   Yue, Weimin ^b   Mason, James J ^b   Roeder, Ryan K ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b OrthoX (formerly Granger Engineering LLC)   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrylic bone cement; Fatigue; Fiber; Implant fixation; Poly(methyl methacrylate); Zirconia

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC BONE CEMENT; ACRYLIC BONE CEMENTS; COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS; FATIGUE LIFE; FATIGUE RESISTANCE; FRACTURE AND FATIGUE; FULLY REVERSED; HANDLING CHARACTERISTICS; HISTORY OF USE; IMPLANT FIXATION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICULATE REINFORCEMENTS; PERI-IMPLANT BONES; STRAIGHT FIBERS; TIME-DEPENDENT; UNIAXIAL FATIGUE; VARIABLE DIAMETER; VARIABLE DIAMETER FIBERS; ZIRCONIA FIBERS;

BONE; CEMENTS; CURING; ESTERS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FIBERS; FRACTURE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; REINFORCED PLASTICS; REINFORCEMENT; SINTERING; VISCOSITY; ZIRCONIA;

BONE CEMENT;

ACRYLIC CEMENT; BONE CEMENT; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); ZIRCONIUM OXIDE;

ARTICLE; FATIGUE; FIBER; FIXATION DEVICE; IMPLANT; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SURFACE PROPERTY; VISCOSITY;

BENCHMARKING; BONE CEMENTS; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; VISCOSITY; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 77955513060     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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