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A stochastic model of damage accumulation in acrylic bone cement : application to failure modelling of cemented hip replacement
Lennon, Alexander Benedict (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2003)Acrylic bone cement, used to fixate several forms of orthopaedic joint replacement prosthesis, has a variable fatigue resistance arising mainly from porosity. It is argued that deterministic modelling assumptions of ...