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Prepared by:
KELVIN HOH CHEE WAI (ME075719)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Project Supervisor: Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN)
Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. Ramesh Singh
CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Objective
• Methodology
• Experimental techniques
• Experimental testing methods
• Results & Discussions
• Conclusion
INTRODUCTION
• Hydroxyapatite (HA), Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2, exhibits
excellent biocompatibility due to its chemistry
similarity with the mineral portions of hard tissues.
Body Preparation
FYP 2
Consolidation Process
3.13
trend with increasing sintering
3.12 temperature.
3.11
0wt%
0.1wt% • All the samples attained above
3.1
0.5wt%
1.0wt%
98% of theoretical density
3.09 when sintered above 1100ºC.
1100 1200 1300
126
• The relationship between the
125 Young’s modulus of the
Young's modulus (GPa)
124 undoped
sintered body, sintering
123 0.1 wt% temperature and CeO2
122
0.5 wt% additions are shown in Fig 3.
1.0 wt%
121
120
119 • The inclusion of CeO2 in HA
118
117 reduces the Young’s modulus.
1050 1100 1150 1200 1250 1300 1350
Sintering Tem perature (°C)
• However, the Young’s
Fig 3: The effects of CeO2 addition on the Young’s modulus modulus of natural bone is
of synthesized HA. reported to be between 11
GPa to 29 GPa.
YOUNG’S MODULUS
Fig 4: Fracture toughness versus Young’s modulus of present biomaterials and human bone.
VICKER’S HARNESS
• A general observation shows
7
measured hardness of all the
samples revealed a similar
6
trend.
Hardness (Gpa)
5
4
• The results also revealed that
undoped
3 the addition of 1 wt% CeO2
0.1wt%
2
0.5wt%
was beneficial as samples
1 1.0wt% exhibited higher hardness
0 value in the sintering regime
1100 1200 1300 employed as compared to
Sintering Temperature (°C)
undoped HA.
Fig 5: The effects of CeO2 addition on the Vicker’s Hardness • The highest hardness value of
of synthesized HA. 6.19 GPa was obtained for HA
doped with 1 wt% CeO2 and
when sintered at 1200ºC.
FRACTURE TOUGHNESS
• The results also show that the
addition of CeO2 was effective
Fracture Toughness (MPam1/2)
0.9
0.8 in enhancing the fracture
0.7
0.6 toughness (KIc) of the
0.5 synthesized HA, particularly
0.4 Undoped
0.3 0.1wt%
when sintered at 1100ºC.
0.2 0.5wt%
0.1 1.0wt%
0 • The 1 wt% cerium-doped HA
1100 1200 1300
samples exhibited the highest
Sintering Temperature (°C) fracture toughness of 0.82
Fig 5: The effects of CeO2 addition on the fracture toughness MPam1/2 as compared to 0.73
of synthesized HA. MPam1/2 measured for the
undoped HA.
CONCLUSIONS