Influence of different CoCrMo counterfaces on wear in UHMWPE for artificial joints

Victor A. González-Mora, Michael Hoffmann, Rien Stroosnijder, Eduardo Espinar, José Maria Llamas, Mariano Fernández-Fairén, Francisco Javier Gil

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DOI: 10.4236/jbise.2011.45047                

Abstract

Wear tests were carried out to study the effect of various counterface materials in the wear behaviour of Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE). The materials used as counterfaces were based on varieties of CoCrMo: 1) forged (hand-polished) CoCrMo, 2) forged (mass-finished) CoCrMo, and 3) cast (mass-finished) CoCrMo. Addi-tionally, two coatings were proposed: 1) a CoCrMo coating applied to the forged CoCrMo alloy by means of physical vapour deposition (PVD), and 2) a ZrO2 coating applied to the forged CoCrMo alloy by means of plasma-assisted chemical vapour deposition (PACVD). The reciprocating pin-on-flat (RPOF) de-vice for pin-on-disk wear testing was used for this study. The worn surfaces were observed using optical, atomic force and scanning electron microscopes.

Keywords

Wear; Artificial Joints; CoCrMo

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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