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Jonathan Black
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Clemson University, USA
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Garth Hastings
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Institute of Materials Research and Engineering National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxiv
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Part I
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- S. L-Y. Woo, R. E. Levine
Pages 59-65
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- S. S. Margulies, D. F. Meaney
Pages 70-80
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Part II
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Front Matter
Pages 133-133
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- Jonathan Black, Garth Hastings
Pages 145-166
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- Jonathan Black, Garth Hastings
Pages 167-178
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- Jonathan Black, Garth Hastings
Pages 179-200
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- Jonathan Black, Garth Hastings
Pages 201-213
About this book
Progress in the development of surgical implant materials has been hindered by the lack of basic information on the nature of the tissues, organs and systems being repaired or replaced. Materials' properties of living systems, whose study has been conducted largely under the rubric of tissue mechanics, has tended to be more descriptive than quantitative. In the early days of the modern surgical implant era, this deficiency was not critical. However, as implants continue to improve and both longer service life and higher reliability are sought, the inability to predict the behavior of implanted manufactured materials has revealed the relative lack of knowledge of the materials properties of the supporting or host system, either in health or disease. Such a situation is unacceptable in more conventional engineering practice: the success of new designs for aeronautical and marine applications depends exquisitely upon a detailed, disciplined and quantitative knowledge of service environments, including the properties of materials which will be encountered and interacted with. Thus the knowledge of the myriad physical properties of ocean ice makes possible the design and development of icebreakers without the need for trial and error. In contrast, the development period for a new surgical implant, incorporating new materials, may well exceed a decade and even then only short term performance predictions can be made.
Editors and Affiliations
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Clemson University, USA
Jonathan Black
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Institute of Materials Research and Engineering National University of Singapore, Singapore
Garth Hastings
