Biotribology of Natural and Artificial Joints by Teruo Murakami - 9780128236697

Biotribology of Natural and Artificial JointsReducing Wear Through Material Selection and Geometric Design with Actual Lubrication Mode\nAuthor(s): Teruo Murakami\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, United States\nImprint: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc\nISBN-13: 9780128236697, 978-0128236697\nSynopsis\nBiotribology of Natural and Artificial Joints: Reducing Wear Through Material Selection and Geometric Design with Actual Lubrication Mode provides a thorough overview of key issues surrounding the tribological behaviors of both natural and artificial joints, covering methods for optimizing the properties of biomaterials, summarizing the lubrication and contact mechanics of natural and artificial joints, and offering solutions to tribological problems in soft biomaterials and surface failures of materials. Sections cover biomechanics and biotribology of natural and artificial joints, articular cartilage and synovial fluids, methods for improving the t.