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MATERIALS & DESIGN
Volume 56, Issue -, Pages 480-486Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2013.11.052
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Shotpeening; Microhardness; Wear rate; Ultimate tensile strength; Osseointegration
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Titanium has good biocompatibility and so its alloys are used as implant materials, but they suffer from having poor wear resistance. This research aims to improve the wear resistance and the tensile strength of titanium alloys potentially for implant applications. Titanium alloys Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al-7Nb were subjected to shotpeening process to study the wear and tensile behavior. An improvement in the wear resistance has been achieved due to surface hardening of these alloys by the process of shotpeening. Surface microhardness of shotpeened Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al-7Nb alloys has increased by 113 and 58 HV(0.5), respectively. After shotpeening, ultimate tensile strength of Ti-6Al-4V increased from 1000 MPa to 1150 MPa, higher than improvement obtained for heat treated titanium specimens. The results confirm that shotpeening pre-treatment improved tensile and sliding wear behavior of Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al7Nb alloys. In addition, shotpeening increased surface roughness. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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