Defect initiation at subsurface grain boundary as a precursor of delamination in ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene
- 4 September 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Biomedical Materials Research
- Vol. 67A (1), 276-284
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jbm.a.10133
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