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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater. 2009 Jan;88(1):206–219. doi: 10.1002/jbm.b.31171

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

SEM micrographs of cracking patterns in the three designs and structure of delamination. (a) and (b) Z lateral proximal female taper (270×) and medial proximal female taper (1,000×), respectively. (c) and (d) M posterior medial proximal female taper (950×) and anterior medial proximal female taper (2,000×), respectively. In the Figures, the features numbered as 1, 2, 3 represent top layer (metal surface), intermediate layer and microstructure, respectively.