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Bone cement is used to develop a mechanical bond between an artificial joint and the adjacent bone tissue, and any degradation of this bond is of serious concern since it can lead to loosening and eventually malfunction of the artificial joint. In the present study, the fatigue lives and fatigue crack propagation behavior of two bone cements, CMW Type 3 and Zimmer, were investigated, and it was found that the size and distribution of pores played a major role in influencing both the fatigue crack initiation and propagation processes. The fatigue lifetimes of CMW exceeded those of Zimmer because of a lesser density of large pores. When the fatigue lifetimes were plotted as a function of K limax, the maximum initial stress intensity factor based upon the initiating pore size, the difference in fatigue lifetimes between CMW and Zimmer bone cements was greatly reduced. The fatigue crack growth behavior of both bone cements were similar. This is a further indication that the noted differences in fatigue lifetimes were related to the size of the pore at the crack initiating site.
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Ishihara, S., Mcevily, A., Goshima, T. et al. On fatigue lifetimes and fatigue crack growth behavior of bone cement. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine 11, 661–666 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008978302196
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