Wear behavior of bulk oriented and fiber reinforced UHMWPE

被引:61
作者
Chang, N
Bellare, A
Cohen, RE
Spector, M
机构
[1] Harvard Univ, Brigham & Womens Hosp, Dept Orthopaed Surg, Sch Med, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[2] MIT, Dept Mech Engn, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[3] MIT, Dept Chem Engn, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[4] Brockton W Roxbury Vet Adm Med Ctr, Rehabil Engn Res & Dev Lab, Boston, MA 02132 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
polyethylene composite; orientation; abrasive wear; joint prosthesis;
D O I
10.1016/S0043-1648(00)00393-8
中图分类号
TH [机械、仪表工业];
学科分类号
0802 ;
摘要
A study of the friction and wear properties of isotropic, fiber reinforced, and bulk oriented ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) was conducted on a reciprocating wear tester. The tests were carried out with a cobalt-chromium alloy cylinder sliding against a flat sample of UHMWPE in bovine serum at 1.5 Hz for over a million cycles. In the fiber reinforced material, layers of woven UHMWPE fibers were embedded in a UHMWPE matrix. Bulk orientation of UHMWPE was produced by channel die compression of standard UHMWPE. The fiber-reinforced samples were tested in one configuration and three different degrees of consolidation. The less consolidated samples failed catastrophically, and the more consolidated sample had a wear rate twice that of the unreinforced, standard UHMWPE. The channel die oriented samples were tested in various configurations and degrees of anisotropy. They all showed similar wear behavior as the standard, with a wear rate of approximately 1 X 10(-7) mm(3)/N In. The average values of the coefficient of friction of all the samples ranged from 0.08 to 0.11. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.
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页码:109 / 117
页数:9
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