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Fabrication of Ceramic Hip Implant Composites: Influence of Silicon Nitride on Physical, Mechanical and Wear Properties

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This study examined the effects of silicon nitride reinforcement on physical, mechanical and wear properties of different ceramic (zirconium oxide, magnesium oxide, chromium oxide and aluminum oxide) containing hip implant composites. The hip implant composites were produced using conventional mixing and spark plasma sintering methods by substituting aluminum oxide (68, 70.5, 73 and 75.5 wt.%) with silicon nitride (0, 2.5, 5 and 7.5 wt.%). Experimental results showed that silicon nitride content had significant effect on the evaluated physical, mechanical and wear properties. The density of the composites found to decrease whereas void content, Young’s modulus, hardness, wear resistance and fracture toughness first decreased (for 2.5 wt.%) and then increased with the increasing amount of silicon nitride content. The maximum hardness, Young’s modulus, wear resistance and fracture toughness values of 28.64 GPa, 280.18 GPa, 0.0076 mm3/million cycles and 11.84 MPa.m1/2, respectively were registered for 2.5 wt.% silicon nitride additions that also had the lowest void content (0.38%).

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, M.N.I.T, Jaipur, 302017, India

    Chandramani Goswami & Amar Patnaik

  2. Applied Mechanics Department, M.N.N.I.T, Allahabad, 211004, India

    I. K. Bhat

  3. Savaria Institute of Technology, Eötvös Loránd University, Szombathely, 9700, Hungary

    Tej Singh & Gusztáv Fekete

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Goswami, C., Bhat, I.K., Patnaik, A. et al. Fabrication of Ceramic Hip Implant Composites: Influence of Silicon Nitride on Physical, Mechanical and Wear Properties. Silicon 12, 1237–1245 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-019-00222-5

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