Handbook of Biomaterial Properties
This book provides tabular and text data relating to normal and diseased tissue materials and materials used in medical devices. Comprehensive and practical for students, researchers, engineers, and practicing physicians who use implants, this book consid
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dbook of Biomaterial Properties Second Edition
Handbook of Biomaterial Properties
William Murphy • Jonathan Black Garth Hastings Editors
Handbook of Biomaterial Properties Second Edition
Editors William Murphy Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Wisconsin Madison, WI, USA
Jonathan Black Principal: IMN Biomaterials King of Prussia, PA, USA
Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation University of Wisconsin Madison, WI, USA Garth Hastings Staffordshire University (Emeritus) Lyme, Staffordshire, UK
ISBN 978-1-4939-3303-7 ISBN 978-1-4939-3305-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-3305-1
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Foreword
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 t
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