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The Effect of Solution Heat Treatment Temperature on Phase Transformations, Microstructure and Properties of Ti-25Ta-xZr Alloys Used as a Biomaterial

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This paper describes a study of the effect of solution heat treatment temperature (500, 750 and 1000 °C) on the phase transformations, microstructure, microhardness and Young’s modulus of Ti-25Ta-xZr alloys, aimed at biomedical applications. The Ti-25Ta-xZr alloys ingots were melted in an arc furnace with five different compositions (x = 0, 10, 20 30 and 40 wt.%) in order to produce samples with α″, β + α″ and β phase. The results showed that both the microstructure and mechanical properties of the studied alloys can be tailored according to the temperatures used for solution in the Ti-25Ta-xZr system. Usually, higher solution heat treatment temperatures increase hardness due to the higher phase stabilization in single-phase alloys, while in the α″ + β alloys or predominantly β, hardness decreases due to the suppression of phase α″. However, the elastic modulus of the alloys decreases when solution heat treatment is performed at 1000 °C. In general, solution heat treatment performed at higher temperatures stabilizes more the β phase, optimizing the lower modulus of the alloys.

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The authors would like to thank Professor Oscar Balancin and Rover Belo (UFSCar) for the use of hot-rolling equipment. The authors are grateful to the Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory—LNNano, for the use of its x-ray diffractometer and LCE/DEMa (Structural Characterization Laboratory) of UFSCar for the TEM analysis using FEI Tecnai G2 F20 microscope. This study was supported by the following Brazilian funding agencies, FAPESP (Grant #2015/09.480-0) and CNPq (Grants #307.279/2013-8, #137.221/2015-0, #157.509/2015-0 and #400.705/2015-0).

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    Pedro Akira Bazaglia Kuroda, Fernanda de Freitas Quadros & Carlos Roberto Grandini

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    Pedro Akira Bazaglia Kuroda, Fernanda de Freitas Quadros & Carlos Roberto Grandini

  3. Department of Materials Engineering (DEMa), UFSCar – Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, 13.565-905, Brazil

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Kuroda, P.A.B., Quadros, F.F., Afonso, C.R.M. et al. The Effect of Solution Heat Treatment Temperature on Phase Transformations, Microstructure and Properties of Ti-25Ta-xZr Alloys Used as a Biomaterial. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 29, 2410–2417 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-020-04770-5

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