...Xingxing Fang; Dahan Li; Yucheng Xin; Songquan Wang; Yongbo Guo; Ningning Hu; Dekun Zhang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to systematically study the dynamic contact stress, frictional heat and temperature field of femoral head-on-acetabular cup contact pairs in a gait cycle. Design...

... head (considered rigid) and the tibial polyethylene insert or acetabular cup (considering a non-linear behaviour). Findings For all three activities, the finite element analyses were performed, and a damage score was computed. Finally, a cumulative damage score (that accounts for all three...