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Wear resistance and dimensional stability of bearing components of total endoprostheses have been demonstrated to be long-term factors in determining the lifetime of artificial hip joints (1). To assess the relative wear resistance of candidate materials in the laboratory a variety of wear-screening machines is reported (2)
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Walter, A., Plitz, W. (1985). The Ring-On-Disc Method — Clinical Significance of a Wear-Screening Test of Biomaterials for Hip Joint Alloplasty. In: Perren, S.M., Schneider, E. (eds) Biomechanics: Current Interdisciplinary Research. Developments in Biomechanics, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7432-9_13
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