Effect of bulk and surface mechanical treatments on the tribological properties of Ti-13Nb-13Zr alloy for biomedical applications

Effect of bulk and surface mechanical treatments on the tribological properties of Ti-13Nb-13Zr alloy for biomedical applications

Agnieszka Kowalczyk, Jarosław Pura, Agata Sotniczuk, Halina Garbacz

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Agnieszka Kowalczyk, Jarosław Pura, Agata Sotniczuk, Halina Garbacz,"Effect of bulk and surface mechanical treatments on the tribological properties of Ti-13Nb-13Zr alloy for biomedical applications", submitted to Tribology International.

Designations: 

TNZ- - Ti-13Nb-13Zr alloy -CR- - sample cold-rolled with the reduction in the rod thickness of 90%-G- - sample grinded on #600 grit abrasive paper-SP- - sample shot-peened with 90-150 µm shots, under the pressure of 0.6 MPa and etched in the Kroll's reagentEDS - Energy Dispersive SpectroscopySEM - Scanning Electron Microscopy XRD - X-ray diffraction

Folders content:

Corrosion - with files with data of corrosion tests, obtained from electrochemical tests

EDS - analysis of chemical composition of the samples using an EDS detector

Hardness - contains results from the hardness tests of the samples

Microstructure - contains images of the microstructure of the samples in the initial state (TNZ) and cold-rolled (TNZ-CR)

Nanoindentation - contains results from the nanoindentation test

SEM - contains folders with images of samples surfaces from Scanning Electron Microscopes. Subfolders:

SEM_1_Initial_Cross-section - SEM images of the cross-sections of shot-peened samples in the initial state

SEM_1_Initial -SEM images of the samples in the initial state, before wear test

SEM_2_Wear - SEM images of the samples after the wear test

SEM_3_Wear_Clean - SEM images of the samples after the wear test and with cleaned wear products

SEM_Al2O3_pins - SEM images of the Al2O3 pins after wear test

Topography - contains folders with results of samples topography from the optical profilometer. Subfolders:

Topography_1_Initial - results for samples in the initial state, before the wear test

Topography_2_Wear - results for samples after the wear test

Tribology tests    - contains files from the tribology test 

This research was supported financially by the National Science Centre, Poland under the grant OPUS 23 [2022/45/B/ST5/03398].