Fatigue characteristics of low cost β titanium alloys for healthcare and medical applications

Materials Transactions

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1570-1577

  Gunawarman, ^a,b   Niinomi, Mitsuo ^a   Akahori, Toshikazu ^a   Souma, Takayuki ^a   Ikeda, Masahiko ^c   Toda, Hiroyuki ^a   Terashima, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b ANDALAS UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Healthcare; Heat treatment; Medical materials; Microstructure; Solution treatment; Titanium; Wheelchairs

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CRACK INITIATION; HEALTH CARE; HEAT TREATMENT; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE; THERMAL EFFECTS; WHEELCHAIRS;

BIOMETALLIC MATERIALS; FATIGUE; MEDICAL MATERIALS; SOLUTION TREATMENT;

TITANIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 24944575175     PISSN: 13459678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2320/matertrans.46.1570     Document Type: Article

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