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Table 2 Cyclic fatigue data for plate types and groups

From: The effect of contouring on fatigue resistance of three types of fracture fixation plates

Plate type

Group

Brittle fracture failure

Plastic def. failure

Avg cycles to failure

Avg F fail (N)

Avg M fail (N · mm)

Avg MCP (N · mm)

BFS Reconstruction

4/5

1/5

497600 ± 30535

358 ± 3.1

4290 ± 37

1.94 × 109 ± 1.31 × 108

2/5

3/5

448800 ± 37803

350 ± 4.0

4200 ± 47

1.74 × 109 ± 1.56 × 108

2/5

3/5

478000 ± 24160

355 ± 3.1

4260 ± 37

1.86 × 109 ± 1.03 × 108

3/5

2/5

429200 ± 85320

348 ± 12.1

4170 ± 145

1.67 × 109 ± 3.42 × 108

MPS Straight

5/5

0/5

538200 ± 55203

260 ± 7.3

3120 ± 87

1.48 × 109 ± 1.73 × 108

5/5

0/5

425400 ± 37214

245 ± 5.2

2942 ± 62

1.11 × 109 ± 1.11 × 108

5/5

0/5

423200 ± 28798

248 ± 4.7

2970 ± 56

1.12 × 109 ± 8.58 × 107

5/5

0/5

364600 ± 5741

238 ± 0

2850 ± 0

9.49 × 108 ± 1.64 × 107

MPS Flex

0/5

5/5

632000 ± 50465

252 ± 9.9

2264 ± 89

1.14 × 109 ± 1.15 × 108

3/5

2/5

812000 ± 25938

282 ± 4.2

2540 ± 37

1.56 × 109 ± 6.55 × 107

1/5

4/5

726600 ± 43271

272 ± 5.4

2448 ± 48

1.36 × 109 ± 1.07 × 108

5/5

0/5

717200 ± 18985

269 ± 7.6

2417 ± 31

1.33 × 109 ± 4.54 × 107

  1. Number of plates that failed due to either brittle fracture or plastic deformation are indicated (total n = 5 per group). Average cycles to failure, failure load level (F fail), failure moment (M fail), and moment-cycle product (MCP) are shown as mean ± standard error