EFFECT OF ZIRCONIUM ADDITION ON MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF PURE TI PRODUCED BY POWDER METALLURGY

Abstract

Titanium (Ti) and its alloys are frequently employed in the biomedical industry because they have a high corrosion resistance in addition to being lightweight, non-toxic, and having excellent biocompatibility. In this work, the microstructure and some required properties were evaluated for binary Ti-15Zr alloy produced by powder metallurgy (PM) for biomedical applications; the obtained results were also compared to that of commercially pure Ti (CP-Ti). The major goal of this paper is to study the impact of Zr addition on the microstructure, micro-hardness, and corrosion resistance of Ti alloy.

Keywords

• biomedical applications
• corrosion resistance
• micro-hardness
• powder metallurgy
• titanium