relation: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/219/
title: Stryker Osteonics: Prosthetic Knee Joint
creator: Hjorth, P.G.
creator: King, J.
creator: Korobeinikov, A.
creator: Mason, J.
creator: McKee, S.
creator: Wilson, S.
subject: Materials
subject: Medical and pharmaceutical
description: We examine, within a simple bearing model of a knee joint that only consideres pure sliding, the effect of the presence of a small vertical hole in the load area on the fluid film properties. The calculations indicate that fluid is entrapped in such a hole, which, for constant load, causes a smaller minimal film separation of the two surfaces.  This will lower the horizontal friction, but may also bring about surface contact in high load situations.
date: 2008
type: Study Group Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/219/1/Stryker_Report.pdf
identifier:   Hjorth, P.G. and King, J. and Korobeinikov, A. and Mason, J. and McKee, S. and Wilson, S.  (2008) Stryker Osteonics: Prosthetic Knee Joint.  [Study Group Report]