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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Hedia, H.S. | Barton, D.C.; | Fisher, J. | Elmidany, T.T.
Affiliations: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Leeds University, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK | Department of Production Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
Note: [] Corresponding author.
Abstract: The load transferred through the hip joint is one of the major forces occurring in the human body. After the replacement of this joint in THR arthoplasty, the load is transferred through the implant to the femoral bone. Loosening of the fixation of the implant and the fatigue failure of prosthetic stems create problems for both patient and surgeon. Both problems can be reduced by the use of Finite Element (FE) analysis to predict stresses and fatigue lifes but the results are sensitive to assumptions regarding the loading conditions and the idealisation of the components. Consequently the stress distributions and resulting fatigue notch factors in the human femur with an endoprosthesis have been determined for different assumptions regarding the form of the idealisation, the load conditions, and the interface conditions. The FE results show that a realistic loading condition without a tension banding force always produces the highest fatigue notch factor and von Mises stresses. An equivalent 2D plane stress model obtained by varying the thickness is likely to give more realistic stresses because it predicts more realistic strains than other 2D approximations. The full bonded interface is a satisfactory. approximation for the real interface conditions because it predicts stress distributions of the correct form without excessive stress concentration.
Keywords: Von Mises stress, fatigue notch factor, loading conditions, interface conditions
DOI: 10.3233/BME-1996-6301
Journal: Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 135-152, 1996
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