@misc{FellahHezilTouhamietal., author = {Fellah, Mamoun and Hezil, Naouel and Touhami, Mohamed Zine and Obrosov, Aleksei and Weiß, Sabine and Kashkarov, Egor B. and Lider, Andrey M. and Montagne, Alex and Iost, Alain}, title = {Enhanced Structural and Tribological Performance of Nanostructured Ti-15Nb Alloy for Biomedical Applications}, series = {Results in Physics}, volume = {15}, journal = {Results in Physics}, issn = {2211-3797}, doi = {10.1016/j.rinp.2019.102767}, pages = {7}, abstract = {Low modulus β-type Ti-15Nb alloys were prepared by subjecting them to different sintering temperatures (800, 900, 1000 and 1100 °C) and their morphological and structural properties were evaluated. X-ray diffraction analysis was used for the morphological characterization which indicated that the mean pore and crystallite size continuously decreased with increasing sintering temperature to reach the lowest values of 41 nm and 27.5 nm at 1100 °C, respectively. Moreover, the higher sintering temperature resulted in higher relative density, greater hardness and young's modulus of the Ti-15Nb alloys. Wear tests were conducted using a ball-on-plate type Oscillating tribometer, under different applied loads (2, 8 and 16 N) to evaluate their tribological characterization. The wear rate and friction coefficient were lower at higher sintering temperature. This enhancement in tribological properties was attributed to a grain refinement. The Ti-15Nb alloys sintered at 1100 °C showed the best tribological performance.}, language = {en} } @misc{FellahHezilTouhamietal., author = {Fellah, Mamoun and Hezil, Naouel and Touhami, Mohamed Zine and Hussien, Mohammed A. and Montagne, Alex and Mejias, Alberto and Iost, Alain and Kossman, Stephania and Chekalkin, Timofey and Obrosov, Aleksei and Weiß, Sabine}, title = {Effect of Sintering Temperature on Mechanical and Tribological Behavior of Ti-Ni Alloy for Biomedical Applications}, series = {TMS 2020 149th Annual Meeting \& Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings}, journal = {TMS 2020 149th Annual Meeting \& Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-030-36295-9}, issn = {2367-1181}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-36296-6_157}, pages = {1701 -- 1710}, abstract = {Ti-Ni powder compacts were prepared by mechanical alloying (MA), followed by hot isostatic pressing (HIP). Afterwards, the samples were sintered at different temperatures (950, 1050, 1150 and 1250 °C). Microhardness, density, crystallite size as well as microstrain of the sintered samples were measured and analyzed. Wear characteristics in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) solution was tested under different applied loads of 2 N, 10 N, and 20 N, respectively. The results indicated that the crystallite size continuously decreases with increasing sintering temperature and reaches the lowest value of 31.3 nm at 1250 °C. The relative density of the sample sintered at 1250 °C is 98.0\%. Moreover, the higher sintering temperatures lead to the higher relative density and the increase in hardness and young's modulus of the sample. At the same time the friction coefficient and wear rate were lower for the samples sintered at 1250 °C. This improvement in friction and wear resistance is attributed to the grain size refinement. Ti-Ni sintered at 1250 °C showed good tribological performance under all test conditions.}, language = {en} }