Micromechanical properties of UHMWPE´s with different molecular weights

0495555 - ÚMCH 2019 CH eng C - Konferenční příspěvek (zahraniční konf.)
Šlouf, Miroslav - Krejčíková, Sabina - Hromádková, Jiřina - Vlková, Helena
Micromechanical properties of UHMWPE´s with different molecular weights.
Key Engineering Materials. Vol. 784. Zurich: Trans Tech Publications Inc., 2018 - (Lofaj, F.; Zubko, P.), s. 33-37. ISBN 1662-9795.
[Conference on Local Mechanical Properties /13./. Košice (SK), 06.11.2017-08.11.2017]
Grant CEP: GA MZd(CZ) NV15-31269A; GA TA ČR(CZ) TE01020118; GA MŠMT(CZ) LO1507
Grant ostatní: AV ČR(CZ) PAN-17-18
Program: Bilaterální spolupráce
Institucionální podpora: RVO:61389013
Klíčová slova: vickers microhardness * microindentation hardness testing * semicrystalline polymers
Obor OECD: Polymer science
https://www.scientific.net/KEM.784.33

Ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) is used as a key component of total joint replacements (TJR) and its mechanical performance is one of the factors influencing TJR lifetime. Micromechanical properties of three model UHMWPE samples with different molecular weights were evaluated from both non-instrumented and instrumented microindentation hardness testing. The properties were correlated with molecular and supermolecular structure of the samples. We have demonstrated that molecular weight influenced the final micromechanical properties mostly indirectly - it changed the overall crystallinity, which strongly correlated with microhardness, indentation modulus, and also with the elastic part of the indentation work. Only microcreep was influenced predominantly by amorphous phase, in which the higher molecular weight resulted in higher amount of entanglements and slightly higher creep resistance.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0293672