Mechanical Properties of ECAP-Biomedical Titanium Materials: A Review

Abstract

Wide use of titanium (Ti) materials in medicine gives impetus to a search for development new techniques with elevated properties such as strength, corrosion resistance and Young's modulus close to that of bone tissue. This article presents most recent state of the art on the use of equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) technique in evolving mechanical characteristics of the ultrafine-grained bio-grade Ti materials. Over past few decades, research activities in this area have grown enormously and have produced interesting results, including achieving combination of conflicting properties that are desirable for biomedical applications by severe plastic deformation (SPD) processing. A review of the most recent work in this area is systematically presented. The challenges in processing ultrafinegrained Ti materials are identified and discussed. An overview of the biomedical Ti alloys processed with ECAP technique is given in this review, along with a summary of their effect on the important mechanical properties that can be achieved by SPD processing. The paper also offers insights in the mechanisms underlying SPD.

Performance and Prospects of Severe Plastic Deformation for Effective Biomedical Titanium Alloys

“…Among most successful ultra-fine and nano grain structuring SPD processes are; high pressure torsion (HPT), equal channel angle pressing (ECAP), accumulative roll bonding (ARB), asymmetric rolling (AR) and repetitive corrugation and straightening (RCS) [25] [26]. Traditional deformation techniques such as conventional rolling, drawing and forging can also induce plastic shear strain in materials.…”