ISO/CD 14243-1

Implants for surgery — Wear of total knee-joint prostheses — Part 1: Methodology for simulator wear testing of tibio-femoral joints under force control.

Scope

ISO 14243‑1:2009 specifies the flexion/extension 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 wear testing of total knee-joint prostheses in wear-testing machines with load control.