Wear resistance of laser-deposited boride reinforced Ti-Nb-Zr-Ta alloy composites for orthopedic implants

Materials Science and Engineering C

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 414-420

  Samuel, Sonia ^a   Nag, Soumya ^b   Scharf, Thomas W ^a   Banerjee, Rajarshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomaterials; Friction; Metal matrix composites; Titanium boride; Tribology

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; FRICTION; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; MICROSTRUCTURE; ORTHOPEDICS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; TITANIUM ALLOYS; TRIBOLOGY; WEAR RESISTANCE;

FEMORAL HEADS; HARD CERAMICS; ORTHOPEDIC FEMORAL IMPLANTS; TITANIUM BORIDE;

SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

EID: 39749092610     PISSN: 09284931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2007.04.029     Document Type: Article

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