Abstract

Ti-35Nb-5Ta-7Zr alloy for biomedical applications with a reduced Young’s modulus of less than 10 GPa, being comparable to that of human bones, was successfully fabricated by powder metallurgy method. The microstructure, compressive and tensile behavior were studied. Results indicate that Ti-rich and Ta-rich phases co-exist in β-matrix. Ti-35Nb-5Ta-7Zr alloys yield at about 10% in compression, with increasing in the content of process control agent, the resultant compressive yield strength and Young’s modulus increase from 650 ± 46 to 1055 ± 90 MPa and from 6.3 ± 0.03 to 8.24 ± 0.04 GPa, respectively. The tensile fractography of alloy with 9.7 GPa tensile Young’s modulus, 433 MPa UTS at the 5.5% elongation consists of cleavage fracture and ductile fracture with dimples. The failure mechanism has been discussed taking the intrinsic microstructural features into consideration.

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