THE PHENOMENON OF HIP JOINT ELLIPTICAL SURFACES
Journal Title: Tribologia - Year 2014, Vol 257, Issue 5
Abstract
Numerous contemporary studies and experimental measurements regarding the human hip joints indicate, that femoral head is, in fact naturally elliptical. Therefore the femoral elliptical complete prosthesis as well half prosthesis must be better adapted to the natural hip joint with elliptical bonehead and neck of the femur. Half prostheses of hip joint are applied when joint acetabulum cartilage is well maintained. In the half prosthesis the head is welded to the spindle or seated to the pin. When acetabulum cartilage is worn (used) a complete prosthesis is implanted. The elliptical femoral prosthesis was designed for solving the problem of the relationship between the femoral prosthesis head and the anatomical acetabulum and to minimize the various incidence namely wear protrusion and pain effects. Performed clinical tests indicate that elliptical prosthesis head have the most advanced technological shapes because are based on the anatomy and biomechanics features of the natural human hip joint. The biomechanics of an elliptical head femoral prosthesis, can be taken as the appropriate shape in the respect to the treatment of medical fractures of the neck of the femur. Taking into account the hydrodynamic theory of lubrication of cooperating surfaces we must finally find pressure distributions, friction forces, friction coefficients and wear. To prepare this calculations we ought at first determine and calculate the fields of the regions of lubrication on the internal surface lying on the elliptical femoral prosthesis (i.e. acetabulum) and on the external elliptical surface of the artificial bone or femoral head. Surface lubrication regions consists of the sums of elliptical triangle which are lying on the abovementioned surface. The coordinates of each tree points lying on the elliptical surfaces are measured by means of Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). In this paper are determined the formulas for the field calculations of elliptical triangle with the three vertexes (points) for coordinates which are foreseen measured.
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Krzysztof WIERZCHOLSKI
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