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Stress Intensity Factors and Possible Crack Propagation Mechanisms for a Crack Surface in a Polyethylene Tibia Component Subject to Rolling and Sliding Contact

구름마찰 접촉하중시 Polyethylene Tibia 표면균열의 응력확대계 수와 복합전파거동에 관한 연구

  • 김병수 (인제대학교 기계자동차공학부) ;
  • 문병영 (부산대학교 항공우주공학과)
  • Published : 2003.12.01
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Abstract

Pitting wear is a dominant from of polyethylene surface damage in total knee replacements, and may originate from surface cracks that propagate under repeated tribological contact. In this study, stress intensity factors, K$\_$I/and $_{4}$, were calculated for a surface crack in a polyethylene-CoCr-bone system under the rolling and/or sliding contact pressures. Crack length and load location were considered in determination of probable crack propagation mechanisms and fracture modes. Positive K$\_$I/ values were obtained for shorter cracks in rolling contact and for all crack lengths when the sliding load was apart from the crack. $_{4}$ was the greatest when the load was directly adjacent to the crack (g/a=${\pm}$1). Sliding friction caused a substantial increase of both K$\_$I/$\^$max/ and $_{4}$$\^$max/. The effective Mode I stress intensity factors, K$\_$eff/, were the greatest at g/a=${\pm}$1, showing the significance of high shear stresses generated by loads adjacent to surface cracks. Such behavior of K$\_$eff/ suggests mechanisms for surface pitting by which surface cracks may propagate along their original plane under repeated rolling or sliding contact.

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