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Computer Simulation of the Elastic Properties of Titanium Alloys for Medical Applications

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Results of a computer simulation of the elastic properties of α+β- and β-titanium alloys, used for medical purposes, within the framework of the molecular-dynamics method are presented. It is shown that β-titanium alloys are best suited for the use as bone implants because of their small moduli of elasticity. The advisability of the use of the molecular-dynamics method for the study of the elastic properties of titanium alloys, serving as bone implants, is demonstrated.

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  1. University of Matanzas, Matanzas, 40100, Cuba

    Elsa Paz Estevez

  2. Insutitute of Physics, Kazan (Volga) Federal University, 18 Kremlevskaya Str., Kazan, 420008, Russia

    Elsa Paz Estevez, R. M. Burganova & Yu. V. Lysogorskii

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 89, No. 5, pp. 1358–1362, September–October, 2016.

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Estevez, E.P., Burganova, R.M. & Lysogorskii, Y.V. Computer Simulation of the Elastic Properties of Titanium Alloys for Medical Applications. J Eng Phys Thermophy 89, 1344–1348 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-016-1498-1

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