Computational Wear Prediction in Total Knee Replacements as a Function of Replacement Size
Publication Name: Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Volume: 59
Issue: Unknown
Page Range: 494-500
Description:
Wear is the third most important factor that restricts the longevity of total knee replacements (TKRs). Wear is particularly influenced by load, local kinematics between the contact surfaces and presumably by the geometry of the contact surfaces. This article investigated, by means of multibody models, how wear in total knee replacements is affected by the size of a TKR or by TKR-related geometric parameters during gait motion. As a result, it has been established that wear rate increases linearly as a function of TKR size, while the impact of TKR-related geometric parameters can be described by linear or quadratic functions. One can conclude that the newly introduced dimensionless parameters can provide guidelines to effectively minimize wear in TKRs.
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.3233/ATDE240585