Tresca Stress Simulation of Metal-on-Metal Total Hip Arthroplasty during Normal Walking Activity

Muhammad Imam Ammarullah; Ilham Yustar Afif; Mohamad Izzur Maula; Tri Indah Winarni; Mohammad Tauviqirrahman; Imam Akbar; Hasan Basri; Emile van der Heide; J Jamari

doi:10.3390/ma14247554

Tresca Stress Simulation of Metal-on-Metal Total Hip Arthroplasty during Normal Walking Activity

Materials (Basel). 2021 Dec 9;14(24):7554. doi: 10.3390/ma14247554.

Authors

Muhammad Imam Ammarullah^{1

2}, Ilham Yustar Afif^{1

2}, Mohamad Izzur Maula^{1

2}, Tri Indah Winarni^{2

3

4}, Mohammad Tauviqirrahman¹, Imam Akbar⁵, Hasan Basri⁵, Emile van der Heide⁶, J Jamari^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University, Tembalang, Semarang 50275, Central Java, Indonesia.
² Undip Biomechanics Engineering & Research Center (UBM-ERC), Diponegoro University, Tembalang, Semarang 50275, Central Java, Indonesia.
³ Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Diponegoro University, Tembalang, Semarang 50275, Central Java, Indonesia.
⁴ Center for Biomedical Research (CEBIOR), Faculty of Medicine, Diponegoro University, Tembalang, Semarang 50275, Central Java, Indonesia.
⁵ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sriwijaya University, Indralaya 30662, South Sumatra, Indonesia.
⁶ Laboratory for Surface Technology and Tribology, Faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Twente, Postbox 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands.

Abstract

The selection of biomaterials for bearing in total hip arthroplasty is very important to avoid various risks of primary postoperative failure for patients. The current investigation attempts to analyze the Tresca stress of metal-on-metal bearings with three different materials, namely, cobalt chromium molybdenum (CoCrMo), stainless steel 316L (SS 316L), and titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V). We used computational simulations using a 2D axisymmetric finite element model to predict Tresca stresses under physiological conditions of the human hip joint during normal walking. The simulation results show that Ti6Al4V-on-Ti6Al4V has the best performance to reduce Tresca stress by 45.76% and 39.15%, respectively, compared to CoCrMo-on-CoCrMo and SS 316L-on-SS 316L.

Keywords: Tresca stress; metal-on-metal; normal walking activity; total hip arthroplasty.