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Tribology of Hip Joint Replacement

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Basic principles of tribology are reviewed, with particular reference to applications to studies of friction, wear and lubrication of artificial hip joints. Different bearing combinations are discussed, including soft-on-hard (polymer-on-metal or ceramic) and hard-on-hard (metal-on-metal, ceramic-on-ceramic and ceramic-on-metal). The importance of tribological principles in design and optimisation of artificial hip joints to reduce wear is demonstrated.

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**, Z., Fisher, J. (2014). Tribology of Hip Joint Replacement. In: Bentley, G. (eds) European Surgical Orthopaedics and Traumatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34746-7_111

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