A controlled-notch specimen to study fatigue crack initiation in bone cement

Fatigue crack propagation rates in PMMA

Fatigue crack propagation rates in PMMA bone cement cannot be reduced to a single power law

✍ Amos Race; Kenneth A. Mann 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 256 KB

## Abstract Cement mantles around metallic implants have pre‐existing flaws (shrinkage induced cracks, laminations, and endosteal surface features) and their fatigue failure is related to the fatigue crack propagation (FCP) rate of bone cement. We estimated the relevant __in vivo__ range of cyclic