... kinematics lubrication macromolecules articular cartilage human ankle joint lubrication synovial fluid filtration walking The development of the present understanding of synovial joint lubrication has been a long and difficult process. For a historical survey of this research we refer...

...M. Kaneta; R. Kawashima; S. Masuda; H. Nishikawa; P. Yang; J. Wang The effects of thermal conductivity and kinematics of contacting surfaces and viscosity-pressure coefficient on the film thickness in an elliptical contact under pure sliding conditions in which lubricant entrainment vector...

...Virginia L. Giddings; Steven M. Kurtz; Avram A. Edidin We investigated the stresses and kinematics of a total knee replacement during the duty cycle of a knee simulator. Finite element models were constructed of the tibial and the femoral component of a commercially available cruciate retaining...

... September 1999 machine bearings rolling lubrication kinematics electrochemical devices Bearing dynamics is of great significance in bearing operation. Over the past decades, many researches have investigated bearing dynamic models so as to obtain bearing design optimization 1 2...