Corrosion fatigue of surgical stainless steel in synthetic physiological solution
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Biomedical Materials Research
- Vol. 15 (2) , 137-145
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jbm.820150203
Abstract
Fatigue tests conducted both in air and synthetic physiological solution show that the fatigue strength of surgical stainless steel in synthetic physiological solution is about 10% lower than the strength in air for a given endurance level. It is proposed that surgical stainless steel which is normally passive in physiological solution suffers corrosion fatigue because of susceptibility to crevice corrosion which occurs at extrusions and intrusions (crevices) on the surface thereby shortening the crack initiation time and the fatigue life.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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