Biotribology of Natural and Artificial Joints: Reducing Wear Through Material Selection and Geometric Design with Actual Lubrication Mode - Elsevier Series on Tribology and Surface Engineering

Biotribology of Natural and Artificial Joints: Reducing Wear Through Material Selection and Geometric Design provides a thorough overview of the key issues in the tribological behaviors of both natural and artificial joints, covering methods for optimizing the performance of biomaterials, summarizing the lubrication and contact mechanics of natural joints, and offering solutions to tribological problems in soft biomaterials as well as surface failures of materials. The book starts with a concise introduction to the topic of biotribology then moves onto coverage of the biomechanics and biotribology of natural and artificial joints. Articular cartilage and synovial fluids are both covered and various lubrication methods are outlined. Lubrication modes, wear and creep mechanics, as well as methods for improving the tribological properties of artificial joints are discussed, and the book concludes with more advanced chapters looking at the biotribology of artificial joints with artificial cartilage, the biotribology of regenerated cartilage, as well as biomimetic design solutions to tribological problems.