Microstructural Analysis and Mechanical Properties of TiMoZrTaSi Alloys as Biomaterials.

TiMoZrTaSi alloys appertain to a new generation of metallic biomaterials, labeled high-entropy alloys, that assure both biocompatibility as well as improved mechanical properties required by further medical applications. This paper presents the use of nondestructive evaluation techniques for new type of alloys, TiMoZrTaSi, with x = 0; 0.5; 0.

Microwave Sintering of Alumina at 915 MHz: Modeling, Process Control, and Microstructure Distribution.

Microwave energy can be advantageously used for materials processing as it provides high heating rates and homogeneous temperature field distribution. These features are partly due to the large microwave penetration depth into dielectric materials which is, at room temperature, a few centimeters in most dielectric materials. However, up to now, this technology is not widely spread for high-temperature material processing applications (>1200 °C), because its reproducibly and ability to sinter large size samples (>30 cm) still needs to be improved.