...Matthew C. Paul; Liam P. Glennon; Thomas E. Baer; Thomas D. Brown Scratches on the metal bearing surface of metal-on-polyethylene total joint replacements have been found to appreciably accelerate abrasive/adhesive wear of polyethylene, and constitute a source of the considerable variability...

... to optimize glenoid component design against abrasive wear through the use of high conformity designs, possessing a polyethylene thickness of at least 6 mm . artificial limbs abrasion failure (mechanical) bone orthopaedics kinematics biomechanics polymers biomedical materials stress analysis...

... variability in regions of localized femoral head roughening could account for much of the variability observed clinically in both wear magnitude and wear direction. The model implemented the Archard abrasive/adhesive wear relationship, which incorporates contact stress, sliding distance, and (implicitly...