Abstract:To study the influence of thermo property on stress of femur-prosthesis system quantitatively, the finite element method is used to analyze the stress of femur-prosthesis system when the hip joint has been replaced, in which the prosthesis, bone cement and femur are assumed as linear elastic and isotropic materials in shape of a concentric cylinder. Considering the thermal effect, the axial stress of prosthesis, bone cement, femur and the interface shear stress along axial of the prosthesis/bone cement and bone cement/femur when the prosthesis are made of titanium alloy and cobalt-chromium alloy are acquired separately by mechanical analysis and FEM simulation.The results indicate that the interface failure is the primary failure mode of the femur-prosthesis system. The existence of thermal effect accelerates the interface failure of femur-prosthesis system and the loose of prosthesis stem. The possibility of interface failure which result in operation failure will ascend when the cobalt-chromium alloy is used, because the thermal expansion coefficient of cobalt-chromium alloys is higher than that of titanium alloy.