Investigating UHMWPE wear mechanisms by decomposing wear debris distributions

Wear

Volumn 271, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 2208-2212

  Plumlee, K ^a   Schwartz, C J ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Debris characterization; Fractal analysis; Polymers; UHMWPE

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; DEBRIS CHARACTERIZATION; FATIGUE PROCESS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; METAL WEAR; RICHARDSON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; STANDARD ANALYSIS; THIRD BODY; VISUAL INSPECTION; WEAR DEBRIS; WEAR MECHANISMS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRIBOLOGY;

DEBRIS;

EID: 79960671908     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2010.11.037     Document Type: Article

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