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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech Eng. 2008 Apr;130(2):021019. doi: 10.1115/1.2904466

Fig. 9.

Fig. 9

Results from the preliminary hip simulator tests. (a) Partial failure in the posterior-superior quadrant at the bone-cement interface (normal walking, 15×106 cycles, BW 100 kg); (b) multiple discrete failures at the bone-cement interface (normal walking, 17×106 cycles, BW 100 kg); (c) near-complete failure at the bone-cement interface (descending stairs, 2.2×106 cycles, BW 125 kg); (d) a CT scan image showing extensive radiolucent line at the bone-cement interface of sample shown in (c).