Effect of solute oxygen on compressive fatigue strength of spinal fixation rods made of Ti-29Nb-13Ta-4.6Zr alloys

Yoon Seok Lee; Mitsuo Niinomi; Masaaki Nakai; Kengo Narita; Huihong Liu

doi:10.2320/matertrans.MI201504

Effect of solute oxygen on compressive fatigue strength of spinal fixation rods made of Ti-29Nb-13Ta-4.6Zr alloys

Yoon Seok Lee, Mitsuo Niinomi, Masaaki Nakai, Kengo Narita, Huihong Liu

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In spinal fixation devices, the activity of the patient can cause fretting of the metal-to-metal contacts between the rod and plug, which may result in failures. In this study, compressive fatigue tests were conducted with rods made of Ti-29Nb-13Ta-4.6Zr alloy (TNTZ) with oxygen contents of 0.06 mass% (06O) and 0.89 mass% (89O) and Ti-6Al-4V extra low interstitial alloy (Ti64) as comparison in both air and saline solution. The fatigue strength increases in the order of 06O<89O< Ti64 in both air and saline solution. These results indicate that solid-solution strengthening by oxygen improves the fretting fatigue resistance of the TNTZ rod.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1993-1997
Number of pages	5
Journal	Materials Transactions
Volume	57
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2320/matertrans.MI201504
Publication status	Published - 2016

Keywords

Biomaterials
Fatigue
Fretting
Orthopedic device
Spinal fixation
Ti-29Nb-13Ta-4.6Zr
Ti-6Al-4V

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Materials Science(all)
Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering

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