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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Effect of 3 wt% Cu on the Microstructure and Hardness of a Ti-10Ta-1.6Zr Alloy.

Nobom G Hashe, Lee Fowler, Susanne Norgren, Lesley A Cornish, Lesley H Chown, William E Goosen, Johan E Westraadt, Nomsombuluko D E Hadebe, Caroline Öhman-Mägi

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Nobom G HasheDepartment of Physics, Nelson Mandela University (NMU), Port Elizabeth 6031, South Africa.
Lee FowlerDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Uppsala University, 75121 Uppsala, Sweden.
Susanne NorgrenDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Uppsala University, 75121 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-1471-8307
Lesley A CornishSchool of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-9291-4584
Lesley H ChownSchool of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-9699-6065
William E GoosenCentre for High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy, Nelson Mandela University (NMU), Gquberha 6001, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-8877-6086
Johan E WestraadtCentre for High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy, Nelson Mandela University (NMU), Gquberha 6001, South Africa.
Nomsombuluko D E HadebeMintek, Advanced Materials Division, Randburg 2194, South Africa.
Caroline Öhman-MägiDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Uppsala University, 75121 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-2709-9541

Funding

NRF-STINT project STNT170905261815Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education STINT, SA2017-7127
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Abstract

Alloys of Ti-10Ta-1.6Zr (wt%) with and without 3 wt% Cu made by arc-melting, heat-treated in two stages and quenched to have α + β microstructures were studied. These alloys were studied for potential replacement of Ti-6Al-4V alloys because Ta and Zr are more biocompatible than Al and V, and copper was added for potential antimicrobial properties. The heat-treated samples were investigated by SEM-EDX, transmission Kikuchi diffraction (TKD) and XRD. When studied at a higher magnification, the heat-treated alloys revealed a bi-lamellar microstructure, consisting of broad α lamellae and β transformed to fine α' lamellae with various orientations. The fraction β transformed to fine α' lamellae was higher in the alloy with Cu than that without Cu. Furthermore, copper was found to lower the solubility of tantalum in the β. The hardest alloy was the heat-treated alloy containing Cu, albeit with a wide standard deviation, probably due to the high fraction of martensitically transformed β.

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copperhardnessmicrostructuretantalumtitanium

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PMCPMC12251167

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