Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) for Orthopaedic Implants

MSF Model

Reference Figure

Digitized from Evans et al. (2015).

References

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Hughes, J. M., Lugo, M., Bouvard, J. L., McIntyre, T., and Horstemeyer, M. F., 2017, Cyclic behavior and modeling of small fatigue cracks of a polycarbonate polymer, Internl. J. Fatigue, 99:78-86. [2]

Simsiriwong, J., Shrestha, R., Shamsaei, N., Lugo, M., and Moser, R. D., 2015, Effects of microstructural inclusions on fatigue life of polyether ether ketone (PEEK), J. Mech. Behav. Biomed. Mat., 51:388-397. [3]