New Resource: Materials for Medical Devices Database

The Libraries now have online access to Materials for Medical Devices Database.

The Materials for Medical Devices Database brings to your desktop a comprehensive and authoritative set of mechanical, physical, biological response, and drug compatibility properties for the materials and coatings used in medical devices.

Recent additions and updates to the Materials for Medical Devices Database

Information on Specific Forms and Conditions, including Stress-Strain Curves:

Additional material records have been introduced to provide engineering property data for specific product forms and conditions, including stress-strain curves. This will enable better differentiation of materials options in design and for finite element analysis (FEA). Initially, specific data have been added to the Co-28Cr-6Mo  record and the Nitinol record.  Similar data for other materials will be added in future updates.

Orthopaedic Module

New schematics were added for the following Orthopaedic Implants:

Fixation:

• Bone Fixation Cerclage
• Intramedullary Fixation Rod and Accessories

Hips:

• Ceramic on Polymer-Semi  Constrained-Total Hip System
• Metal Femoral-Partial Hip System
• Metal on  Polymer-Constrained-Total Hip System
• Metal on Metal-Semi Constrained-Total Hip System

Knees:

• Non Constrained -Femorotibial-Knees
• Semi  Constrained-Patellofemoral
• Semi  Constrained-Patellofemorotibial
• Uncemented Resurfacing-Tibial-Knees

Biological response data have been added to the  records for:

• PMMA (material)
• CP Titanium (coating)
• Ti-6Al-4V (coating)

Wear attributes have been added to the material and coating records.