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12 - Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering
University of Leeds
The effect of aspherical geometry and surface texturing on the elastohydrodynamic lubrication of metal-on-metal hip prostheses under physiological loading and motions
This is an invited paper published in a special issue “Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication” and contains the latest research findings in the computational lubrication modeling of metal-on-metal bearings for artificial hip joints. Research has been supported from ORSAS, EPSRC project GR/S62307/02 and Portfolio grants GR/S63892/01 and in collaboration with industry (DePuy, Isaac, gisaac@its.jnj.com and Zimmer, Rieker, claude.rieker@zimmer.com) over a period of ten years. The unique computational modelling methodology provides an important part of the pre-clinical testing portfolios for metal-on-metal artificial hip joints as well as the design and optimization of the next generation devices to minimize the wear under adverse edge-loading conditions.
