This paper presents the initial developments of a prototype device intended to perform measurements of the fastening torque in the range bellow 1 N.m – hereby denominated microtorque. The device is intended to yield data for analysis of in vitro torquing and detorquing experiments, for fixation and removing of abutments in dental implants and implants in artificial bones. The analysis of the data acquired allowed the authors to observe characteristic fingerprints or signal signatures associated to the type of abutment or implant under experimentation as well as of the mechanical prototype characteristics. In this paper, two different systems of abutment and implant were analyzed. The correlation between the phenomena associated to the signal fingerprints indicate that the developed measurement protocol may be extended to other implant / abutment systems. The authors suggest that the insertion and removal torque curves evaluated in this study would facilitated the correlation between the abutments stability in actual patients and the dynamical behavior under masticatory function.
Zirconium alloys have many applications in industry in services too harsh for stainless steels, nickel alloys or where a noteworthy improvement in service life may be achieved, by choosing zirconium alloys instead of other metals, such as high permeability to thermal neutrons and excellent corrosion resistance in nuclear reactor environments. Mixing alloying elements, such as niobium, molybdenum, tin, titanium and tantalum, with zirconium changes its physical and chemical properties, especially its resistance to corrosion. In this study, specimens of Zr-1.0Nb alloy were obtained by melting in a furnace with non-consumable electrodes in argon atmosphere. Different samples were prepared to ensure good homogeneity of the specimens. The melting procedure was tested several times to determine the parameters that ensure proper alloy handling. These parameters include the melting point of the alloys under pressure and the current in the furnace. Using the derived melting parameters and processing parameters, it has been obtained Zr-1.0Nb alloy specimens with appropriate homogeneity, as confirmed by auxiliary characterization techniques, such as optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. For these methods, the requirements for physicochemical properties in the nuclear sector were incorporated into the analyses.
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