Stress Analysis of the Hip Joint Endoprosthesis Ceramic Head for Different Values of Shape Deviations

Abstract:

The paper deals with the problems of ceramic head of hip joint endoprosthesis destructions, and with assessing the impact of shape deviations of conical surfaces on the tensile stress under ISO 7206-5 loading. The failure of the hip joint endoprosthesis ceramic head has always traumatic consequences for the patient, since a part of or even the whole endoprosthesis has to be reoperated. Hence, it is desired to reduce the number of implant re-operations to the minimum. Therefore the computational modelling of the stress of the head was realised. The shape deviations of the ideal contact cone areas of the head and stem are parameters that significantly influence the tensile stress in the head and its reliability. The assumed shape deviations of the head’s and stem’s cones are macro shape deviations (different cone taper) and micro shape deviations (unevennes) measured using the IMS-UMPIRE equipment. The stress state in the ceramic heads was solved using the FEM and head’s failure probability is based on the Weibull weakest link theory [4, 5 and 9].

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 936)
• Pages: 770-775
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.936.770
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Vladimír Fuis*, Premysl Janicek
• Keywords: Ceramic Head, Cone Contact Areas, Failure Probability, Hip Joint Endoprosthesis, Shape Deviations, Tensile Stress

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