Failure of ceramic hip endoprostheses by
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Seidelmann, U. ;Richter, H. ;SoltΓ©sz, U.
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Article
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1982
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The slow crack propagation velocity __v__, which depends on the stress intensity factor __K__, has been measured for three different highβdensity aluminas. Assuming a load history for the prosthesis which approximates conditions during walking, the lifetimes of the components of a total