Investigation of fatigue crack growth in acrylic bone cement using the acoustic emission technique

Roques, A.; Browne, Martin; Thompson, Jonathan; Rowland, C.; Taylor, A.

doi:10.1016/s0142-9612(03)00581-7

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“…An alternative to dye penetrant is the acoustic emission (AE) technique. This has previously been used to monitor bone cement under fatigue loads [8], as it has the advantage of being passive, and allows the tests to run continuously.…”

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Damage accumulation, fatigue and creep behaviour of vacuum mixed bone cement

2005

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Damage accumulation, fatigue and creep behaviour of vacuum mixed bone cement

2005

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“…13,14,17,25,26 Few studies have combined acoustic emission and ultrasonics to assess implant integrity. Vaidya and Raju 27 defined a stress wave factor when using an acoustic-ultrasonic technique to differentiate between a loose and wellfixed prosthesis.…”

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“…Each emission has a ''rise time,'' a ''duration,'' an amplitude, and an energy associated with it ( Figure 1). For a description of these parameters the reader is referred to Roques et al 14 Events with high energies and amplitudes are more critical, and previous work has identified that events with short rise times, long durations are associated with brittle events such as cracking, while long rise times and durations are associated with more plastic type events involving friction or rubbing.…”

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Nondestructive evaluation of bone cement and bone cement/metal interface failure

2009

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To quantify the failure mechanisms related to the loosening of cemented hip joint replacements, novel techniques, capable of monitoring, nondestructively, the initiation and progression of failure during in vitro fatigue tests, were employed. Fatigue testing of model cement and cement-stem test pieces was monitored using acoustic emission (AE) sensors. Once damage was detected, an ultrasonic imaging system was used to obtain an image of the damage site and to measure the stiffness of the affected region. This method of examination provided a detailed insight into the internal crack propagation and delamination patterns. Initial work was conducted on bulk cement specimens subjected to bending and tension. The second stage of the work examined a model stem-cement interface under tensile opening loading conditions. A novel ultrasonic technique was used to measure the bond quality at the cement-metal interface. Progressive delamination was identified over time, and the AE technique was able to identify critical areas of delamination before they could be identified conclusively by ultrasonic imaging. The work has demonstrated the potential of the AE technique as a tool for the preclinical assessment of total hip replacements.

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“…The correlation of the duration vs energy is shown in Fig.7, which indicates that the duration is proportional Fig.6 Cumulative number of counts during three-point bend fatigue test for specimen SENB1 Fig.7 Correlation of AE energy vs duration to the energy because the duration reflects the releasing mode of energy [15]. And the correlation can be used to monitor the onset of failure.…”

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Feasibility analysis for monitoring fatigue crack in hydraulic turbine blades using acoustic emission technique

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Zhu

Mao

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J. Cent. South Univ. Technol.

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In order to investigate the feasibility of monitoring the fatigue cracks in turbine blades using acoustic emission (AE) technique, the AE characteristics of fatigue crack growth were studied in the laboratory. And the characteristics were compared with those of background noise received from a real hydraulic turbine unit. It is found that the AE parameters such as the energy and duration can qualitatively describe the fatigue state of the blades. The correlations of crack propagation rates and acoustic emission count rates vs stress intensity factor (SIF) range are also obtained. At the same time, for the specimens of 20SiMn under the given testing conditions, it is noted that the rise time and duration of events emitted from the fatigue process are lower than those from the background noise; amplitude range is 49−74 dB, which is lower than that of the noise (90−99 dB); frequency range of main energy of crack signals is higher than 60 kHz while that in the noise is lower than 55 kHz. Thus, it is possible to extract the useful crack signals from the noise through appropriate signal processing methods and to represent the crack status of blade materials by AE parameters. As a result, it is feasible to monitor the safety of runners using AE technique.

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Investigation of fatigue crack growth in acrylic bone cement using the acoustic emission technique

Cited by 44 publications

References 26 publications

Damage accumulation, fatigue and creep behaviour of vacuum mixed bone cement

Damage accumulation, fatigue and creep behaviour of vacuum mixed bone cement

Nondestructive evaluation of bone cement and bone cement/metal interface failure

Feasibility analysis for monitoring fatigue crack in hydraulic turbine blades using acoustic emission technique

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