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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2013 Jan 16;46(5):1035–1039. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.12.006

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Fabricated mold used for the preparation of cement and bone-cement specimens. The base plate contains (22×12×25) mm curing chamber, which has front, back and top openings. Two ABS plastic blocks were used to cover the front and back sides of the chamber. A custom made clamp was used to restrict the side blocks movement. The top plate can slide freely to the curing chambers using 4 round rods. The top plate has (22×12×23) mm extruded block at the center that can close the top side of the curing chamber and apply pressure during curing. A set of weights were placed at the top plate to provide 60 KPa pressure (Ries et al., 1998). Variable thickness of cement blocks (22×12×2~10 mm) were successfully cured using the mold.