Title
The computer simulation of wear behavior appearing in total hip prosthesis.
Abstract
Computer algorithms are proposed for the estimation of wear appearing in artificial hip joints using finite element analysis based on the modified Archard's wear law, contact features and an analogue wear process. A pin-on-disk plate experiment is reconstructed to assess the efficiency and validity of the algorithms proposed here. Through the successful verification of wear depth and volume loss of the pin-on-disk plate as well as the artificial hip joint, the current algorithms provide significant agreement with experiments, clinical measurements and numerical calculations and are shown to be both valid and feasible. Further investigation into the effect of femoral heads with various sizes suggests that the larger femoral head may induce larger wear volume but gives a smaller wear depth and that wear depth and volume loss are apparently nonlinearly related to the femoral head diameter. It is shown that the current algorithms are useful and helpful in understanding wear behavior for alternative or new designs of artificial hip joints and even for other analogous structures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1016/S0169-2607(01)00199-7
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Keywords
Field
DocType
Finite element,Hip prosthesis,Wear
Prosthesis,Computer vision,Artificial hip joints,Femoral head,Computer science,Contact mechanics,Arthroplasty,Finite element method,Artificial intelligence,Surgery,Structural engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
70
1
0169-2607
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
1.11
1
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
James Shih-Shyn Wu1228.31
Jui-Pin Hung242.47
Chi-Shiang Shu341.11
Jian-Horng Chen43412.63