MACROSCOPIC AND MICROSCOPIC WEAR MECHANISMS IN ULTRA-HIGH-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE
MACROSCOPIC AND MICROSCOPIC WEAR MECHANISMS IN ULTRA-HIGH-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE
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DOI:
10.1016/0043-1648(93)90521-m
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发表时间:
1993-04-13
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影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
FISHER, J
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作者:
COOPER, JR;DOWSON, D;FISHER, J
Studies of the wear of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene sliding on relatively smooth metallic and ceramic counterfaces under a wide range of tribological conditions in pin-on-disc and pin-on-plate tests, hip joint simulators and components taken from patients, have demonstrated evidence for two separate types of wear processes. Microscopic wear processes were associated with the very small asperities or the smooth counterfaces (less than 0.2 mum). Macroscopic polymer asperity wear processes were associated with stress concentrations under the much larger peaks in the polymer surface (amplitude less than 10 mum). For constant load tests with rougher counterfaces, microscopic asperity wear dominated. However for smooth counterfaces (R(a)