Abstract
Fatigue life estimation is one of the vital factors in the design of
biomedical prostheses. But fatigue tests of a hip prosthesis require
over ten million cycles, furthermore experimental methods may be too
expensive and take a long time for material selection or optimization.
Therefore, numerical analyses performed by Finite Elements Methods (FEM)
becomes necessary to pre-estimation of fatigue life. In this study, a
numerical analysis performed by FEM analysis to estimate the fatigue
performance of newly designed hip prosthesis. Prior to experimental
testing processes, aimed to analyze the candidate designs and to
contribute to complete of the verification process in a more efficient,
economical, and fast manner.