Output details
12 - Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering
University of Sheffield : A - Mechanical engineering and Advanced manufacturing
Article title
A new hip epiphyseal prosthesis: Design revision driven by a validated numerical procedure
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Medical Engineering & Physics
Article number
-
Volume number
33
Issue number
10
First page of article
1203
ISSN of journal
13504533
Year of publication
2011
URL
-
Number of additional authors
5
Additional information
This research output describes an experimental and numerical investigation that drove Stryker Corporation to a revision of a prototype hip implant they had under development. The original design was found to reduce by over 20% the femoral neck strength, with a considerable risk of post-operative bone fracture. The new design that emerged from this study produced no weakening of femoral strength, and other improvements; it is now commercialised as PER prosthesis (Stryker Orthopaedics, Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France. Contact: contact: President Directeur General). The methods used can be applied to virtually any other prosthetic design.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
