Computational wear prediction of artificial knee joints based on a new wear law and formulation

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1108-1116

  Abdelgaied, Abdellatif ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Brockett, Claire ^a   Jennings, Louise ^a   Fisher, John ^a   Jin, Zhongmin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial knee joints; Creep; Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene; Wear coefficient; Wear mechanism; Wear prediction

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL KNEE; ARTIFICIAL KNEE JOINTS; ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; BEARING SURFACES; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL WEAR PREDICTION; CONTACT AREAS; CONTACT PRESSURES; CROSS-SHEAR; KNEE IMPLANTS; LABORATORY SIMULATION; METALLIC MATERIAL; OPTIMISATIONS; POLYMERIC BEARINGS; SIMULATOR DESIGN; SIMULATOR TEST; TIBIAL INSERTS; VOLUMETRIC WEAR RATES; WEAR COEFFICIENT; WEAR FACTOR; WEAR LAW; WEAR MECHANISM; WEAR MODEL; WEAR PATTERN; WEAR PREDICTION; WEAR SCARS; WEAR SIMULATORS; WEAR VOLUME;

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CREEP; DESIGN; FORECASTING; HIP PROSTHESES; JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYETHYLENES; SHEAR FLOW; SIMULATORS; THERMOPLASTICS; TRIBOLOGY; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

WEAR RESISTANCE;

ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTACT STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; KINEMATICS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE PROPERTY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEIGHT BEARING;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79953028342     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2011.01.027     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Archard J., Hirst W. The wear of metals under unlubricated conditions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 1956, 236:397-410.
2. Barbour P., Barton D., Fisher J. The influence of contact stress on the wear of UHMWPE for total replacement hip prostheses. Wear 1995, 181-483:250-257.
3. Barbour P., Barton D., Fisher J. The influence of stress conditions on the wear of UHMWPE for total joint replacements. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine 1997, 8:603-611.
4. Bartel D., Rawlinson J., Burstein A., Ranawat C., Flynn W.F. Stresses in polyethylene components of contemporary total knee replacements. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 1995, 317:76-82.
5. Brockett, C., Jennings, L., Hardaker, C., Fisher, J., in preparation. Wear of moderately cross-linked polyethylene in a total knee replacement.
6. Carr B., Goswami T. Knee implants-review of models and biomechanics. Materials and Design 2009, 30:398-413.
7. Fisher J., Jennings L., Galvin A., Jin Z., Stone M., Ingham E. Polyethylene wear in total knees. Clinical Orthopaedic and Related Research 2010, 468:12-18.
8. Fregly B., Bei Y., Sylvester M. Experimental evaluation of an elastic foundation model to predict contact pressures in knee replacements. Journal of Biomechanics 2003, 36:1659-1668.
9. Fregly B., Sawyer W., Harman M., Banks S. Computational wear prediction of a total knee replacement from in vivo kinematics. Journal of Biomechanics 2005, 38:305-314.
10. Galvin A., Kang L., Tipper J., Stone M., Ingham E., Jin Z., Fisher J. Wear of crosslinked polyethylene under different tribological conditions. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine 2006, 17:235-243.
11. Galvin A., Kang L., Udofia I., Jennings L., McEwen H., Jin Z., Fisher J. Effect of conformity and contact stress on wear in fixed-bearing total knee prostheses. Journal of Biomechanics 2009, 42:1898-1902.
12. Godest A., Beaugonin M., Haug E., Taylor M., Gregson P. Simulation of a knee joint replacement during a gait cycle using explicit finite element analysis. Journal of Biomechanics 2002, 35:267-275.
13. Kang L., Galvin A., Brown T., Jin Z., Fisher J. Quantification of the effect of cross-shear on the wear of conventional and highly cross-linked UHMWPE. Journal of Biomechanics 2008, 41:340-346.
14. Kang L., Galvin A., Brown T., Fisher J., Jin Z. Wear simulation of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene hip implants by incorporating the effects of cross-shear and contact pressure. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part H-Journal of Engineering in Medicine 2008, 222:1049-1064.
15. Knight L., Pal S., Coleman J., Bronson F., Haider H., Levine D., Taylor M., Rullkoetter P. Comparison of long-term numerical and experimental total knee replacement wear during simulated gait loading. Journal of Biomechanics 2007, 40:1550-1558.
16. Kurtz S., Jewetta C., Bergstroma J., Fouldsa J., Edidin A. Miniature specimen shear punch test for UHMWPE used in total joint replacements. Journal of Biomaterials 2002, 23:1907-1919.
17. Lee K., Pienkowski D. Compressive creep characteristics of extruded ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 1998, 39:261-265.
18. Lee K., Pienkowski D. Viscoelastic Recovery of Creep-deformed Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) 1998, American Society for Testing and Materials, pp. 30-36.
19. Liu F., Galvin A., Jin Z., Fisher J. A new formulation for the prediction of polyethylene wear in artificial hip joints. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part H-Journal of Engineering in Medicine 2010, 224.
20. Maxian T., Brown T., Pedersen R., Callaghan J. A Sliding-distance-coupled finite element formulation for polyethylene wear in total hip arthroplasty. Journal of Biomechanics 1996, 29:687-692.
21. McEwen H., Barnett P., Bell C., Farrar R., Auger D., Stone M., Fisher J. The influence of design, materials and kinematics on the in vitro wear of total knee replacements. Journal of Biomechanics 2005, 38:357-365.
22. Pal S., Haider H., Laz P., Knight L., Rullkoetter P. Probabilistic computational modeling of total knee replacement wear. Journal of Wear 2008, 264:701-707.
23. Penmetsa J., Laz P., Petrella A., Rullkoetter P. Influence of polyethylene creep behavior on wear in total hip arthroplasty. Journal of Orthopaedic Research 2006, 24:422-427.
24. Vassiliou K., Unsworth A. Is the wear factor in total joint replacements dependent on the nominal contact stress in ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene contacts?. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part H-Journal of Engineering in Medicine 2004, 218:101-107.
25. Wang A., Essner A., Polineni V., Stark C., Dumbleton J. Lubrication and wear of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene in total joint replacements. Tribology International 1998, 31:17-33.
26. Wang A. A unified theory of wear for ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene in multi-directional sliding. The Journal of Wear 2001, 248:38-47.
27. Willing R., Kim Y. Three dimensional shape optimization of total knee replacements for reduced wear. Journal of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Medical and Bioengineering Application 2008, 405-414.
28. Willing R., Kim Y. A holistic numerical model to predict strain hardening and damage of UHMWPE under multiple total knee replacement kinematics and experimental validation. Journal of Biomechanics 2009, 42:2520-2527.
29. Zhao D., Sawyer W., Fregly B. Computational wear prediction of UHMWPE in knee replacements. Journal of ASTM International 2006, 3(7):45-50.
30. Zhao D., Sakoda H., Sawyer W., Fregly B. Predicting knee replacement damage in a simulator machine using a computational model with a consistent wear factor. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 2008, 130.