BMI = 30 STRESSES IN CEMENT MANTLE (MPA) Thickness 1mm cement 2mm cement 3mm cement 4mm cement Acetabular size (mm) Tensile Shear Tensile Shear Tensile Shear Tensile Shear 46 10.32 5.36 10.18 4.84 8.99 3.82 8.14 3.67 Number of cycles to failure (×106) 7.04   7.6   14.1   22.1   52 9.71 4.95 8.20 4.55 7.65 3.73 7.26 3.56 Number of cycles to failure (×106) 9.72   21.4   28.6   35.1   58 8.03 4.5 7.27 3.61 6.81 3.37 6.73 3.21 Number of cycles to failure (×106) 23.4   34.9   44.4   46.3

Table 2: Tensile stress, shear stress and number of cycles (× 106) to failure in simulated reconstructed hip joints with different acetabular sizes.