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    • Structural, elastic and mechanical properties of Ti–15Nb–$x$Ge alloys: insight from DFT calculations

      E GULER G UGUR S UGUR M GULER R KHENATA

      Volume 44 Published: 15 February 2021 Article ID 0037

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    • Keywords

       

      Ti–Nb; Ti–Nb–Ge; biomaterials; elastic properties; mechanical properties; DFT.

    • Abstract

       

      We theoretically investigated the structural, elastic and mechanical properties of Ti–15Nb–$x$Ge alloys with $x = 0.8$, 1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6 and 1.8 (wt%) compositions for the first time. Theoretical calculations were performed with thegeneralized gradient approximation (GGA) functional within density functional theory (DFT). We employed the Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof (PBE) scheme and the virtual crystal approximation (VCA) in this study. We determined the elasticconstants, bulk, shear and Young’s moduli, Pugh ratio, Poisson’s ratio, universal anisotropy and hardness of all the alloys under varying Ge% concentrations. All studied compositions of the alloys show structural stability. Young’s modulivalues were obtained as 43 and 14.8 GPa for Ti–15Nb–0.8Ge and Ti–15Nb–1.8Ge alloys, respectively, which compare well to the Young’s moduli range of human cortical bone with 10–30 GPa. Except the Poisson’s and Pugh ratios, all other computed parameters of the alloys were found to decrease under increasing Ge concentrations. Further, all investigated alloys exhibit desired ductile mechanical behaviour of biomaterials and calculated hardness values of these alloys are satisfactory with the hardness of human teeth dentin.

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      E GULER1 G UGUR2 S UGUR2 M GULER1 R KHENATA

      1. Department of Physics, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, 06900 Ankara, Turkey
      2. Department of Physics, Gazi University, 06500 Ankara, Turkey

    • Dates

       
      Published
      15 February 2021
      Manuscript received
      7 July 2020
      Accepted
      15 September 2020
      Final version published online
      15 February 2021

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