Cover -- Biotribology -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Biotribology of Total Hip Replacement: the Metal-on-Metal Articulation -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Historical development of metal-on-metal bearings in total hip replacements -- 1.3. Design and materials -- 1.3.1. Implant geometry -- 1.3.2. Manufacturing methods and metallurgy -- 1.4. Tribology of metal-on-metal bearings in total hip replacement -- 1.4.1. Wear and types of friction -- 1.4.2. EHL theory of lubrication -- 1.4.3. Friction in physiological joints -- 1.4.4. Friction in artificial joints -- 1.5. Wear testing -- 1.5.1. Simulation in hip simulators -- 1.5.2. Wear determination -- 1.5.3. Wear properties -- 1.5.4. Results of wear tests -- 1.5.5. Summary of results from simulator studies -- 1.5.6. Wear mode -- 1.6. Clinical relevance of metal wear particles and metal ions -- 1.7. Conclusion -- 1.8. Acknowledgments -- 1.9. Bibliography -- Chapter 2. Experimental Wear Studies of Total Joint Replacements -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Methods for assessing tribology in total joint replacement -- 2.2.1. Lubrication -- 2.2.2. Friction -- 2.2.3. Wear -- 2.3. Effects of material and design on the tribology of total joint replacements -- 2.3.1. Total hip and resurfacing replacements -- 2.3.2. Total knee replacement -- 2.4. Conclusion -- 2.5. Bibliography -- Chapter 3. Influence of Temperature on Creep and Deformation in UHMWPE under Tribological Loading in Artificial Joints -- 3.1. Temperature in artificial joints -- 3.1.1. Artificial knee joints -- 3.1.2. Why does temperature affect the performance of artificial joints? -- 3.1.3. Mathematical approaches to estimate the contact temperature during friction -- 3.1.4. Temperature rise during cyclic tribological sliding.

3.2. Temperature influence on creep and fatigue mechanisms of UHMWPE under tribological loading -- 3.2.1. Temperature dependence of the yield strength of UHMWPE -- 3.2.2. Temperature dependence of the creep strength of UHMWPE -- 3.2.3. Temperature-dependent deformation under tribological loads -- 3.2.4. Wear and deformation mechanisms of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene -- 3.3. Deformation behavior of polyethylene on the molecular scale -- 3.3.1. Deformation mechanisms in polyethylene -- 3.3.2. Tribologically-induced molecular changes -- 3.4. Importance for artificial knee joints -- 3.5. Acknowledgments -- 3.6. Bibliography -- Chapter 4. Large Capacity Wear Testing -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Categories of test devices -- 4.3. CTPOD principle -- 4.4. SuperCTPOD test procedure -- 4.5. SuperCTPOD validation -- 4.6. Further SuperCTPOD studies -- 4.7. Summary -- 4.8. Concluding remarks -- 4.9. Acknowledgments -- 4.10. Bibliography -- Chapter 5. Biotribology of Titanium Alloys -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.1.1. History of titanium alloys -- 5.1.2. The properties of titanium alloys -- 5.1.3. The application of titanium alloys -- 5.2. Surface modification of titanium alloys -- 5.2.1. Ion implantation -- 5.2.2. Carburization -- 5.3. Biotribological properties of titanium alloys -- 5.3.1. Fretting wear -- 5.3.2. Sliding wear -- 5.3.3. Artificial joint simulation -- 5.4. Acknowledgments -- 5.5. Bibliography -- List of Authors -- Index.