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Liling Yan1, Yang Leng, Jiyong Chen
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
Abstract:
The torsional strength of plasma sprayed hydroxyapatite (HA) coatings was studied under static and cyclic loading. The torsional shear tests were conducted in a frustum test device developed in this laboratory, which adapted to various coating thicknesses. The interfacial fatigue resistance was measured in terms of interfacial fatigue strength defined as the average maximum stress (tau(fmax)). A staircase fatigue method was employed to determine the interfacial fatigue strength; this method resolved the uncertainty in detecting coating failure during torsion fatigue. The values for coating shear strength and shear fatigue strength obtained from the torsional tests did not differ from those obtained by previous tensional shear tests in this laboratory. The fatigue strength of one million cycles was about 35% lower than static shear strength. This finding might be used for estimating fatigue life span without cyclic loading tests.
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