A five-station hip joint simulator |
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Authors: | Smith S L Unsworth A |
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Affiliation: | Centre for Biomedical Engineering, University of Durham, UK. |
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Abstract: | A five-station hip joint wear simulator was designed and built which featured simplified motion and loading. An elliptical wear path was produced using approximately sinusoidal motion in the flexion/extension and internal/external rotation axes and the dynamic loading approximated to a square wave. Five 28 mm diameter zirconia femoral heads articulated against ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene acetabular cups in 25 per cent bovine serum for 5 x 10(6) cycles. Gravimetric wear measurement was used with moisture absorption compensation using a dynamically loaded soak control. With motion of physiological magnitude, the mean acetabular cup wear rate was 52.2 mm3/10(6) cycles which is comparable with a number of clinical studies. |
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