Turón Viñas, Miquel (Date of defense: 2018-01-11)
Tetragonal polycrystalline zirconia, commonly stabilised with 3 mol% yttria (3Y-TZP), became one of the most interesting ceramics for biomedical applications due to its biocompatibility and high mechanical ...
Pavón Palacio, Juan José (Date of defense: 2006-11-08)
La aleación Ti6Al4V es el biomaterial más utilizado para el reemplazo de tejidos duros, debido a su alta biocompatibilidad y a sus propiedades mecánicas. Sin embargo, al ser bioinerte no se une directamente ...
Chen, Yu-Hsiang (Date of defense: 2018-06-12)
Hard coating 's thermal stability is essential due to the high temperature environment of high-speed cutting applications, while the induced phase and microstructure evolution affects the mechanical ...
Doroudgarian, Newsha (Date of defense: 2016-03-18)
The presented work is a part of the ongoing effort on the development of high performance bio-based composites with enhanced durability, under static and dynamic mechanical loading including the exposure ...
Melk, Latifa (Date of defense: 2016-05-20)
In the last decades there has been growing interest in developing ceramic materials with high fracture toughness (Klc) and strength for structural applications. In the specific case of 3 mol% yttria-doped ...