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Tribological Behavior of AZ31 Alloy Against Si3N4 Using In-vitro and In-silico Submodeling Approach for Human Hip Prosthesis

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The use of magnesium alloy (AZ31) has profound applications in biomedical field as a substitute for joint replacements. The present study aims at analyzing the tribological behavior of AZ31-Si3N4 combination using ball-on-disc (BoD) tribometer for 20 km to estimate the friction and wear rate properties under 20 N load for hip implants. Phosphate buffer saline(PBS), Ringer’s solution, 0.9% NaCl and distilled water are the bio-lubricants considered for the current study to replicate synovial fluid. Overall Ringer’s solution and distilled water showed least and maximum wear coefficient. Further, submodeling FE technique is implemented to estimate the wear of above combination for 5 million cycles using contact stress developed for different gait loads. Among the gait activities considered, normal walking and lifting 40 kg load gait activities exhibited minimum and maximum cumulative linear and volumetric wear. Even for aqueous bio-lubricant medium the current combination exhibited only considerable wear. It is quite interesting to note that the current ceramic-on-metal(C-o-M) combination showed better tribological behavior than some of the other well known C-o-M combinations. This combination could be used as a better alternative for metal-on-metal (M-o-M) combination owing to their excellent biocompatibility.

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  1. Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India

    S. Shankar, R. Nithyaprakash & G. Abbas

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India

    R. Naveenkumar

  3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India

    Chander Prakash

  4. School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia

    Alokesh Pramanik

  5. Adelaide Microscopy, The University of Adelaide, 5005, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Animesh Kumar Basak

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Dr S. Shankar has contributed for conceptualization, methodology, reviewing, editing & supervision of manuscript.

Dr. R. Nithyaprakash has contributed for conceptualization, methodology, software, investigation and writing of original draft of manuscript.

Mr. G. Abbas has contributed for modeling of implants and stress analysis in the current study.

Dr. R. Naveen Kumar has contributed for reviewing and editing of the manuscript.

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Shankar, S., Nithyaprakash, R., Abbas, G. et al. Tribological Behavior of AZ31 Alloy Against Si3N4 Using In-vitro and In-silico Submodeling Approach for Human Hip Prosthesis. Silicon 15, 983–991 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-022-02077-9

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