Estudo do comportamento termomecânico de telas de ligas com memória de forma Ni-Ti obtidas por fundição de precisão.

Abstract

Recent studies have shown that titanium meshes are being used to assist in the recovery of bone fractures in various parts of the human body such as the face, jaw, skull and knee. These components have advantages as a high strength coupled with a low thickness required for anchoring of fractured parts important to prevent irritation postoperatively process still looking to reduce the rate of re-operation. Thus, by anticipating a future better efficiency of this application, arises interest in analyzing the thermomechanical behavior of this type of implant, but manufactured from alloys with shape memory (SMA), which are materials that exhibit functional properties such as shape memory effect (SME) and superelastic (SE). These peculiarities, coupled with biocompatibility of LMF NiTi has led to their use in the development of implantable medical devices. In this context, apply SMA meshes, with good mechanical strength and reversible deformation to enhance biomedical applications replacing titanium screens, it is a current technological challenge. Therefore, this study aimed to carry out the thermomechanical characterization of Ni-Ti and Ni-Ti-Cu SMA meshes produced by precision casting with three different cell geometries (circular, hexagonal and square) and three states (as foundry, thermally treated and laminated). The results showed that the screens produced showed the phase transformation phenomena characteristic of EMF and SE, and reversible deformation in order draw up to 5%. The type of cell geometry was the most influential factor in the strength values and the best results were obtained in the circular geometry screens. In the thermomechanical bending tests, and the type of cell, results were greatly influenced by the thickness of the screens and thermal treatments. Thus, the meshes produced had enough features to enhance biomedical applications from SMA to replace the titanium meshes, which do not benefit from functional properties.