Stress Analysis of the Thin Coating of the Trapeziometacarpal Replacement

Abstract:

The paper reviews stress and deformation analysis of the thin coating. The coating covers a surface of a contact component of the trapeziometacarpal joint replacement which serves as a surgical treatment of a hand joint disease called rhizarthrosis. Motivation for this study consists mainly in the fact of occasional damage of some parts of the replacement in practice [2]. It emerged that the thin coating breaks in the location of contact which opens an effort to explore stress states of such a location depending on various input parameters. Better awareness of detailed contact conditions could lead to improvement of the replacement design and, thus, prevention from necessary reoperation.

• Periodical: Defect and Diffusion Forum (Volume 382)
• Pages: 213-217
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.382.213
• Online since: January 2018
• Authors: Tomáš Svojanovský, Vladimír Fuis*
• Keywords: DLC Coating, FEM, Stress Analysis, Trapeziometacarpal Replacement

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