ISO/WD 14242-3

Implants for surgery — Wear of total hip-joint prostheses — Part 3: Loading and displacement parameters for orbital bearing type wear testing machines and corresponding environmental conditions for test ISO/WD 14242-3

Scope

ISO 14242-3:2009 specifies relative angular movement between articulating components, the pattern of the applied force, speed and duration of testing, sample configuration and test environment to be used for the orbital bearing type wear testing of total hip joint prostheses.