Finite element analysis of the impingement on the acetabular liner rim due to wear of the acetabular liner surface

This workstudies the impingement on the rim of acetabular liner due to wear on the surface of acetabular liner using finite element simulation. A three dimensional contact model between a femoral head and an acetabular liner was developed. There are three steps in this simulation, i.e. creating the virtualwear on the surface of acetabular liner, applying the load at the femoral head, and rotating the femoral head from neutral position till the impingement occurrence. The virtualwear is created based on the data of wear depth which was obtained from literature. Results showed that the wear on the acetabular liner surface wouldaffected the impingement occurrence, in which the impingement angle becomes narrow. In addition, the failure possibility of the acetabular liner rimwould become higher