Wear behaviour of titanium based composites reinforced with niobium pentoxide in saline and acidic environments.

The present study reports on the wet wear behaviour of spark plasma sintered commercial pure titanium (Cp Ti) and Ti-based composites containing 5, 10, and 15 wt% NbO in acidic and saline environments. The wear properties in wet (3.5 wt% NaCl and 0.