Analysis of Locking Self-Taping Bone Screws for Angularly Stable Plates

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17110%2F17%3AA1801S5G" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17110/17:A1801S5G - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/61989100:27230/17:86097820 RIV/00843989:_____/17:E0106504

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40846-017-0279-4" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40846-017-0279-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40846-017-0279-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s40846-017-0279-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Analysis of Locking Self-Taping Bone Screws for Angularly Stable Plates

Original language description

Paper focuses on biomechanics, specifically on locking cortical bone screws in angularly stable plates used for the treatment of bone fractures in the medical fields of traumatology and orthopaedics. During extraction of titanium-alloy implants, problems are encountered in an effort to loosen some locking bone screws from the locking holes of an angularly stable plate and the subsequent stripping of the internal hexagon of the screw head. The self-locking of the screw-plate threaded joint was verified by calculation and the effect of the angle of the thread on the head of the locking cortical bone screw on self-locking was evaluated. The magnitude of the torque, causing the stripping of the internal hexagon (the Inbus type head) of a locking cortical bone screw with a shank diameter of 3.5 mm from Ti6Al4 V titanium alloy to ISO 5832-3, was determined experimentally. Also, it was experimentally found that the rotation of the screwdriver end with a hexagonal tip inside the locking cortical bone screw head during stripping of the internal hexagon causes strain of the screw head perimeter and thereby an increase of thread friction. The effect of tightening torque on the possibility of loosening of the locking cortical bone screw from the locking hole of an angularly stable plate was assessed experimentally. From the evaluation of five alternative shapes of locking cortical bone screw heads in terms of the acting stress and generated strains, it follows that the best screw is the screw with the Torx type head, which demonstrates the lowest values of reduced stress and equivalent plastic strain. Based on experiments and simulations the authors recommend that all global producers of locking cortical bone screws for locking holes of angularly stable plates use the Torx type heads, and not heads of the Inbus type or the Square, PH, PZ types.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20601 - Medical engineering

Project

<a href="/en/project/TA03010804" target="_blank" >TA03010804: Osteosynthesis of leg and arm fractures</a><br>

Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

ISSN

1609-0985

e-ISSN

2199-4757

Volume of the periodical

37

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

612-625

UT code for WoS article

000407949800016

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85027884531