Guillén Girón, Teodolito: Properties and application spectrum of cast porous implants made of Ti-6Al-7Nb in coated and uncoated conditions. 2012
Inhalt
- Front page
- Acknowledgements
- Content
- Symbols and abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theoretical background
- 2. 1 Cancellous bones
- 2.2 Requirements for a biomaterial
- 2.3 Titanium and its alloys as implant materials
- 2.4 Engineering cellular solids in medical applications
- 3 Materials and experimental methods
- 3.1 Preparation of the bone samples
- 3.2 Ti-6Al-7Nb material
- 3.3 Fabrication of the specimens
- 3.4 Microstructure and surface modification
- 3.5 Mechanical testing
- 3.6 In-vivo investigation
- 3.7 Morphological and analytical studies
- 4 Results
- 4.1 Compression behaviour of the cancellous bones and open-cell foam
- 4.2 Characterization of the cast Ti-6Al-7Nb material
- 4.3 Characterization of calcium titanate reaction layer
- 4.4 Post-operative biomechanical analysis
- 5 Discussion
- 5.1 Comparison of the mechanical properties of the cancellous bone and open-cell metallic foam
- 5.2 Cast Ti-6Al-7Nb as implant material
- 5.3 Properties of CaTiO3 reaction layer on cast Ti-6Al-7Nb material
- 5.4 Biomechanical response of porous Ti-6Al-7Nb implants in animal experiments
- Summary
- Appendices
- References