## Abstract To study the mechanical behavior of a commercially available UHMWPE reinforced with carbon fibers, measurements of contact area, contact pressure and timeβdependent deformation were made on tibial components from a contemporary total knee replacement loaded to physiological levels. For
How does tack depend on time of contact and contact pressure?
β Scribed by Costantino Creton; Ludwik Leibler
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 813 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0887-6266
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β¦ Synopsis
The tack of polymer melts on rigid substrates under conditions of short contact times and low pressures is examined. The substrate is modeled as a random rough surface with a distribution of asperities heights. The true contact area between the adhesive and the substrate is calculated for a given total load and elastic modulus of the substrate. The dependence of tack on contact time is accounted for by introducing the relaxation of the adhesive through a time-dependent elastic modulus. For relatively high pressures the tack is predicted to scale with 1/E so that for short contact times, tc, the tack is predicted to scale with (&/T~)"', where T, is the entanglement time. For lower pressures this simple scaling law is no longer valid and we predict a complex variation of tack with contact time and molecular parameters.
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