Fatigue performance of a bioactive composite developed for hard tissue replacement

Key Engineering Materials

Volumn 240-242, Issue , 2003, Pages 935-938

  Wang, M ^a,b   Chua, B ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Biaxial fatigue; Composite; Fatigue crack growth; Fatigue life; Hydroxyapatite; Hysteresis; Polysulfone

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; SHEAR STRESS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

BIOACTIVE COMPOSITES;

TISSUE;

EID: 8544232086     PISSN: 10139826     EISSN: 16629795     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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