Research Article

Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Improving Quality of Design in Femoral Component of Knee Prostheses: Influence of Interface Geometry and Material

Table 8

Performance of Co-Cr alloy designs in different criteria and ranking orders scenarios by TOPSIS method.

Objectives MaxMinMinMinMinMinRelative closeness to the ideal solutionRanking
Relative weights of design criteria 0.190.150.190.110.140.23
ABCDEF

Design 12.9193.11634.7024.67900.79115.40.408012
Design 23.6053.42844.6024.74918.17114.70.407513
Design 31.5702.18920.1326.22804.5972.90.61801
Design 41.7712.22121.3526.26925.80108.20.431510
Design 52.9622.68235.4627.05901.9973.90.58654
Design 64.2441.88445.5527.35874.13109.80.52126
Design 71.6001.30620.2727.79849.11122.30.44879
Design 81.8041.33621.5027.86867.8986.90.57505
Design 91.2132.46487.9917.00934.89101.50.286316
Design 101.3521.81597.5425.52813.6879.00.46378
Design 110.8450.95861.9410.05779.5869.00.61072
Design 120.8511.30962.3510.12883.21109.80.408611
Design 131.2932.47090.7417.13885.2785.90.396015
Design 141.4081.81399.1225.55892.9168.30.46907
Design 150.8921.14863.2510.11796.9668.30.60333
Design 160.8711.31160.4310.10866.49116.50.400014

A: minimum of stress mean in different regions explained in Figure 9 (MPa).
B: maximum of stress STDV in different regions (MPa).
C: maximum contact slip at femoral component/bone interface (μm).
D: maximum peg stress (MPa).
E: area of cross section (mm2).
F: maximum stress at corner points of inner contour (MPa).