Title: Biomechanical and material characteristics of plate stabilisers

Authors: Marcin Kaczmarek

Addresses: Institute of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice 44-100, Poland

Abstract: The aim of the work was determination of biomechanical and material characteristics of plate stabilisers intended for elastic osteosynthesis. Several types of plate stabilisers applied in the most common fractures were analysed. The stabilisers were made of stainless steel. The implant|s surface was modified by means of various methods. Furthermore, resistance to the most common types of corrosion was also tested. In order to determine the biomechanical characteristics of the analysed plate stabilisers, both the finite element method and the experimental verification of the obtained results were applied. The next stage of the work was the surface modification realised by means of grinding, electropolishing, passivation and carbon layer deposition. Then, the modified surfaces were tested for various types of corrosion, occurring in the human body environment. The obtained results indicate that both the applied methods of fixation and the suggested surface modifications can be applied in clinical practice. [Received 10 November 2005, Accepted 27 January 2006]

Keywords: materials; metallic alloys; biomaterials; mechanical properties; computational mechanics; corrosion resistance; plate stabilisers; biomechanics; elastic osteosynthesis; stainless steel; implants.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCMSSE.2007.016432

International Journal of Computational Materials Science and Surface Engineering, 2007 Vol.1 No.4, pp.408 - 423

Published online: 28 Dec 2007 *

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