title: Fatigue properties of bone cement. Comparison of mixing techniques.
abstract: A four-point bending test was made on 54 specimens of CMW, Simplex P, and Zimmer LVC bone cements. The samples were cyclically loaded at a stress level of 20 MPa at a frequency of 4 Hz. The different cements were mixed either by hand or mechanically with or without a 0.15-bar vacuum. Mechanical mixing in a vacuum improved all three cements, and was the best of all the tested mixing techniques. Simplex P showed the best fatigue properties regardless of mixing technique.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedics, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Lindén
mesh_terms: D001843:Bone Cements / Q000032:analysis / Q000592:standards*; D002498:Centrifugation; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013718:Tensile Strength; D014618:Vacuum
chemical_list: D001843:Bone Cements