Development of a ten-station, multi-axis hip joint simulator
- 1 April 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine
- Vol. 213 (4) , 311-316
- https://doi.org/10.1243/0954411991535149
Abstract
Joint simulators are now used extensively to evaluate the performance of materials and designs of total replacement hip and knee joints. In this Technical Note a new ten-station hip joint simulator with biaxial rotational articulation synchronized to a physiological loading cycle is described. The current simulator manufactured by ProSim Limited (Manchester, UK) is a development of a first generation machine designed and built in-house at DePuy International Limited (Leeds, UK). The use of this new form of ten-station hip simulator to evaluate the performance of 22 mm zirconia femoral heads and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene acetabular cups over some 7 million loading cycles is described elsewhere [1].Keywords
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