Biotribology
J. Paulo DavimThe authors aim to provide some advances in research in biotribology. They cover several aspects of biotribology such as tribology of synovial joints and artificial replacements; wear of screws and plates in bone fractures repair; wear of denture and restorative materials; friction of the skin and comfort of clothing; wear of replacement heart valves; tribology of contact lenses and ocular tribology; biotribology on the microscale and nanoscale levels, etc.
This book can be used as a research text for final undergraduate engineering courses (for example, materials, biomedical, etc.) or for those studying the subject of biotribology at the postgraduate level. It can also serve as a useful reference for academics, biomechanical researchers, biologists, chemists, physicists, biomedicals and materials engineers, and other professionals in related engineering, medicine and biomedical industries.
Content:Chapter 1 Biotribology of Total Hip Replacement: The Metal?on?Metal Articulation (pages 1–49): J. Philippe Kretzer
Chapter 2 Experimental Wear Studies of Total Joint Replacements (pages 51–86): Claire Brockett and John Fisher
Chapter 3 Influence of Temperature on Creep and Deformation in UHMWPE under Tribological Loading in Artificial Joints (pages 87–142): Mathias Christian Galetz and Uwe Glatzel
Chapter 4 Large Capacity Wear Testing (pages 143–155): Vesa Saikko
Chapter 5 Biotribology of Titanium Alloys (pages 157–197): Yong Luo