Expo 2013 10 April 2013 Coventry, UK Maciej Krystiana, Bernhard Minglera, Manfred Bammera, Michael Zehetbauerb a Biomedical Systems, Health & Environment Department, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Viktor-Kaplan-Straße 2/1, 2700 Wr. Neustadt, Austria b Physics of Nanostructured Materials, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Wien, Austria
of Technology, Austria's largest non-university research institute, is among the European research institutes a specialist in the key infrastructure issues of the future. AIT provides research and technological development to realize basic innovations for the next generation of infrastructure related technologies in the fields of health & environment, energy, mobility and safety & security. These technological research areas are supplemented by the competence in foresight & policy development. 5 10 April 2013
and process technologies (ECAP) for: permanent implants with improved biocompatibility and tailored properties in terms of strength, ductility, fatigue, surface texture biodegradable metals for osteosynthesis systems which are absorbed by the human body after ossification, and are also increasingly being used in cardiovascular applications. http://www.ait.ac.at/research-services/research-services-health-environment/advanced-implant-solutions/?L=1 9 10 April 2013
viable, direct method for production of bulk, fully dense, massive (>10x10x10mm3), ultrafine grained (UFG) or even nanostructured metallic materials by means of very large plastic deformation (»1 or 100%) The large plastic deformation during SPD is distinguished by: multidimensional deformation under enhanced hydrostatic pressure and to a large extent by the preservation of the original shape of samples The most-commonly used SPD method is the Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP) technology 11 10 April 2013
April 2013 Schematic diagram of the ECAP process The material is multiple pressed through a die consisting of • two channels • equal in diameter • with a set angle of intersection under enhanced hydrostatic pressure without changing the cross section area of the ingot. These facts enable: processing of hard-to-deform or brittle materials (Ti, Mg) repeated pressing with the same tool very high deformation (~100% per pass) thus formation of an UFG or nanostructured microstructure in bulk, massive metallic materials
dies with angle of intersection 120°, 105° and 90° suitable for cylindrical bolts with diameters 12mm, 15mm, 20mm, 25mm and 40mm length up to 90mm (limited by press stroke) pressing force up to 700 kN = 70 tons process temperature: die set up to 500°C, workpiece –196 °C to 900°C; pressing speed < 20 mm/s manual or automatic (robotized) operating modes monitoring of all parameters 13 10 April 2013 ECAP facility at AIT Wr. Neustadt, Austria June 2011 April 2010 ECAP facility at AIT Seibersdorf, Austria August 2012
specific materials/needs large dimensions, strain (Mg, Al, Cu) high strength materials (Ti alloys) simpler design (reduction of manufacturing costs) FEM simulations of both ECAP dies (mainly stresses) and workpiece (strain, microstructure, homogeneity) 14 10 April 2013
Office a patent application titled ‘A Method for Manufacturing an Article from a Metal or an Alloy, an Object Made Thereof as well as Pressing Tool Therefor’ On 10/9/2012 the AIT et al. filed in Austrian Patent Office a patent application titled ‘A Tool for Deforming a Metal Object at High Pressure’ 15 10 April 2013
ECAP materials can be further enhanced and/or tailored (e.g. significantly higher ductility combined with still high strength) The workpiece can be further processed by forging, isothermal forging or extrusion and shaped to (semi)finished product 16 10 April 2013 +
commercially pure titanium by ECAP Initial grain size of 50 μm (left, optical microscopy) and nano-sized structure after ECAP with mean grain size below 500 nm (right, optical microscopy and TEM in insert) 18 10 April 2013 Commercially Pure Titanium (CP-Ti) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Diffraction (EBSD) CEST Center of Electrochemical Surface Technology on behalf of AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (2011) Microstructure Change of the microstructure with an average α-grain size of ~10 μm in as received material down to UFG structure with grain size of about 100nm As received ECAP Ti 6Al-4V Extra Low Interstitials (Ti64 ELI)
CEST Center of Electrochemical Surface Technology on behalf of AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (2011) Microstructure Change in the / phase ratio 93(2) : 7(2) as received 82(2) : 18(2) after ECAP As received ECAP Ti 6Al-4V Extra Low Interstitials (Ti64 ELI) phase phase phase
Electron BackScatter Diffraction (EBSD) CEST Center of Electrochemical Surface Technology on behalf of AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (2011) Microstructure Significant shift from Low Angle Grain Boundaries (LAGB) towards High Angle Grain Boundaries (HAGB) As received ECAP Ti 6Al-4V Extra Low Interstitials (Ti64 ELI) Grain boundary Grain size distribution Misorientation angle <5°(subgrains) 5–15°(LAGB) >15°(HAGB)
certificate + measurements AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, University of Vienna Yield Strength (YS) Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS) Total strain A5
certificate + measurements AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH , University of Vienna 2) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, University of Vienna Yield Strength (YS) Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS) Total strain A5
certificate + measurements AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH University of Vienna 2) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, University of Vienna 3) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH + Kühr GmbH Yield Strength (YS) Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS) Total strain A5
certificate + measurements AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, University of Vienna 2) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, University of Vienna 3) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH + Kühr GmbH Yield Strength (YS) Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS) Total strain A5 By conventional deformation: modest increase in strength dramatic reduction of ductility
certificate + measurements AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, University of Vienna 2) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, University of Vienna 3) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH + Kühr GmbH 4) Semenova et al. Mat Sci Forum 503-504 (2006) 757-762 Yield Strength (YS) Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS) Total strain A5
certificate + measurements AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, University of Vienna 2) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, University of Vienna 3) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH + Kühr GmbH 4) Semenova et al. Mat Sci Forum 503-504 (2006) 757-762 Yield Strength (YS) Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS) Total strain A5 By ECAP: Significant increase in strength (+up to 40%) Still high ductility (=>10%)
certificate + measurements AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, University of Vienna 2) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, University of Vienna 3) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH + Kühr GmbH 4) Semenova et al. Mat Sci Forum 503-504 (2006) 757-762 Yield Strength (YS) Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS) Total strain A5 By post-deformation: Shaping to (semi)finished product Further increase in strength and ductility
certificate + measurements AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, University of Vienna 2) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, University of Vienna 3) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH + Kühr GmbH 4) Semenova et al. Mat Sci Forum 503-504 (2006) 757-762 Yield Strength (YS) Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS) Total strain A5
for superplasticity at low temperatures and high strain rates Tensile-test specimen before (top) and after a tensile test at 650°C at strain rate 1x10-3 s-1 (bottom) Deformation of > 800% without fracture! Low-temperature superplasticity 32 AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Both CP-Ti and Ti64 ELI after ECAP show enhanced fatigue limit stress and durability compared to conventional materials CG: Coarse Grained UFG: UltraFine Grained after ECAP 33 L.R.Saitova et al. Mat. Sci. Eng. A 503 (2009) 145
the surface of ECAP processed Ti64 ELI (right) is significantly higher compared to as-received material (left) Vital staining of L929 cells after 24 hour incubation 34 10 April 2013 as-received ECAP BMP – Labor für Medizinische Materialprüfung GmbH on behalf of AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (2010) Cell vitality on surface of ECAP Ti64 ELI
hemocompatibility adhesion of thrombocytes thrombin generation complement activation haemolysis mitochondria activity show no significant difference between the as-received and ECAP-processed Ti64 Neither aluminum nor vanadium ions could be evidenced in aqueous extractions of ECAP Ti64 ELI 35 10 April 2013 Mitochondria activity after 24 hour incubation of both ECAP as well as as- received materials is on the level of the negative control BMP – Labor für Medizinische Materialprüfung GmbH on behalf of AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (2010) No difference in the cell number between as-received, ECAP materials and reference
its capability of processing bulk materials (pure metals as well as alloys) The extremely high plastic deformation leads to change of the grain size from about several ten of micrometers down to a few hundred nanometers and thus to formation of UFG microstructure The modification of the microstructure results in • enhanced mechanical and improved biological properties comprising in particular of – superior strength (yield YS and ultimate tensile strength UTS) – higher ductility/formability (compared to conventionally processed materials) – advanced low cycle and high cycle fatigue properties – higher hardness – significant enhancement of biocompatibility, wettability, cell attachment and spreading as well as viability of ECAP surface 39 10 April 2013
Serienproduktion – SerienECAP’ (project number 830817) COIN Programme Line Cooperation and Networks by The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) ‘BioCompatible Materials and Applications – BCMA’ initiated by the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH. It was partly funded by AIT as well as by the federal state of Lower Austria and co-financed by the E.C. (EFRE) 40 10 April 2013 This research was accomplished within the context of the following projects
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