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wide range of patient-speci c activities of daily living (ADLs), providing a
valuable additional dimension of insight alongside conventional ISO- and
ASTM-standard wear testing.
In any eventuality, it is not foreseeable that numerical models will replace
experimental wear testing in the near future; rather, numerical and experimen-
tal methods are mutually complementary, and increasingly researchers in both
elds will need to collaborate in order to understand the fundamental science
of wear, and also to understand the performance of new implant designs.
The other notable anticipated development in future years will be the
increasing interest in the tribology of natural biological tissues, both for
understanding ...