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An Overview of In Vitro Mechanical and Structural Characterization of Hip Prosthesis Components

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Total Hip Replacement nowadays represents an established surgical technique that helps patients to restore a proper joint function and relieve them from pain. Research, laboratory results and improvement in the industrial testing of total hip replacement components brought important knowledge in the preclinical validation of prostheses. The preclinical validation of hip joint prostheses is a critical step for further development of new implant designs act to reduce the possibility of catastrophic failures and revision surgery. The objective of a preclinical test is to determine the wear rate and its dependence on the test conditions. In the field of wear analysis computational modelling may have the potential to help product design in minimizing wear. Best practice suggested is to enhance the data collection derived from physical wear testing through numerical modelling.

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The author’s whish to thank Luigi Lena (Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute) for his help for drawing these original figures.

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    S. Abdel Jaber & Saverio Affatato

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia

    Fatima Zivic

  2. Medical Technology Laboratory, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy

    Saverio Affatato

  3. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia

    Miroslav Trajanovic

  4. Biomaterials Department, INNOVENT e.V., Jena, Germany

    Matthias Schnabelrauch

  5. Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia

    Nenad Grujovic

  6. Institute for Materials Discovery, University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Kwang Leong Choy

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Abdel Jaber, S., Affatato, S. (2018). An Overview of In Vitro Mechanical and Structural Characterization of Hip Prosthesis Components. In: Zivic, F., Affatato, S., Trajanovic, M., Schnabelrauch, M., Grujovic, N., Choy, K. (eds) Biomaterials in Clinical Practice . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68025-5_22

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