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Relationship between fracture toughness and impact strength of acrylic bone cement
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Memphis, TN 38152-6576, USA.
Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
|December 7, 2000
Abstract:
This work involved determining the fracture toughness, KIc (in MPa(square root)m) (using rectangular compact tension specimens) and impact strength, IS (in kJ/m2) (Charpy type specimens) of Surgical Simplex P and three variants of Palacos R acrylic bone cements. The best fit to these results yielded a power relationship KIc = 0.795(IS)0.59. The usefulness of this relationship is detailed, especially for the purpose of performing quality control checks on bone cements.