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Fretting fatigue behavior of surface modified biomedical titanium alloys

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Fretting is a form of adhesive wear normally occurring at the contact points gradually leading to premature failure of load bearing medical implants made of titanium alloys. The aim of this work is to characterize the fretting fatigue damage features of PVD TiN coated, plasma nitrided, ion implanted, laser nitrided and thermally oxidized Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al-7Nb contact pairs. The surface layers were characterized. The damage progression during fretting process is apparently explained with tangential force coefficient curves. Plasma nitrided pairs showed highest fretting fatigue life compared to others. PVD TiN coated pairs have experienced early failures due to third body mode of contact interaction with irregular tangential force coefficient pattern. Ion implanted layers showed similar damage as unmodified alloys. Laser nitrided and thermally oxidized pairs experienced early failures due to brittle and irregular modified layers.

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  1. Advanced Engineering, Ashok Leyland Technical Center, Chennai, 600 103, India

    Aravind Vadiraj

  2. Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600 036, India

    M. Kamaraj

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Vadiraj, A., Kamaraj, M. Fretting fatigue behavior of surface modified biomedical titanium alloys. Trans Indian Inst Met 63, 217–223 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12666-010-0030-0

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