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Manufacturing Implants with Residual Compression

by Doug Hornbach | May 2013

Since implementing Low Plasticity Burnishing (LPB®) Exactech hasn’t experienced a single failure from a processed hip. Here is how adding a layer of residual compression to a metallic device part has been shown to slow fatigue crack initiation and growth. ... Read more »

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