Failure of medullary tubes: A materials analysis

• Published in: Injury Vol. 35; no. 9; pp. 878 - 882
• Main Authors: Taub, Marc, Wera, Glenn, Dauskardt, Reinhold H., Mohler, David G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2004; Elsevier
• Subjects: Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Biomechanics; Diseases of the osteoarticular system; Equipment Failure; Fracture Fixation - instrumentation; Hardware failure; Humans; Material science; Materials Testing; Medical sciences; Medullary tubes; Nylon; Nylons; Orthopaedic; Orthopedic Equipment; Stress, Mechanical; Trauma; Traumas. Diseases due to physical agents; Biomechanics; Nylon; Material science; Trauma; Medullary tubes; Orthopaedic; Hardware failure; Tube; Analysis; Orthopedics; Materials; Anesthesia; Failure; Resuscitation

The objective of this study is to determine the effects of autoclaving on the stress, strain, ultimate tensile strength (UTS), fracture strain, modulus, and yield stress of nylon medullary tubes. There are three reports describing nylon medullary tube failure in the literature. All cases involved th...