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MCE Jon Armour - Coggle Diagram
MCE Jon Armour
The Body :man_dancing:
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Bioceramics
Biotoxic: materials that are toxic to living organisms, e.g. silver nano-particles
Bioactive: beneficial medical properties, e.g. HA encourages bone growth
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Replacement joints
Hip Joints
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Ball is made of metal or ceramic, acetabular cup is often UHMWPE but can be ceramic or metal
metal/metal joints are worst, metal/ceramic/UHMWPE are best for wear debris and longevity
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Dental Ceramics :smiley:
Most common is glass based ceramic, 70%lithium disilicate crystals (acicular) embedded in matrix
Dental porcelain: glassy alumino-silicate matrix, with embedded crystalline phases e.g. quartz(strength) and pigment phases
:check: Chemically stable, no deterioration, similar thermal conductivity and expansion to enamel
:red_cross: low tensile strength and fracture toughness, sensitive to surface cracks
Zirconia: strongest, toughest but suffers from hydrothermal aging (attacked by moisture)
Phase change (tetragonal :arrow_right: monoclinic) causes volume expansion, causes cracking on expansion \(\therefore\) yttrium used to stabilise the tetragonal phase
Yttria unevenly distributed, less at grain boundaries, grain boundaries attacked by water, causes tranformation to monoclinic and volume change = cracks
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Ceramic Feedthroughs: Allow electronics to pass through body. Must be biocompatible and leak tight seal
Glass
Transparency
Photons interact with electronic structure of atoms, excite electrons up into conduction band. Radiation is absorbed and material is opaque
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Ceramics can be transparent when they are: amorphous, single crystal, thin, EITHER very coarse and dense OR fine and dense microstructure
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Gorilla Glass :gorilla:
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Toughening glass
Surface heat treatment: glass sheets heated to plastic state hten quenched. Creates compressive stress, cracks need to overcome this before growth
Ion Exchange: replacing some of the sodium ions with larger potassium ions, placing surface into compression
Vests
Stab Proof
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Blade gets stuck in weave, fibre resists being cut
Bullet proof
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Soft :arrow_right: hard
Soft: multiple layers of high strength woven fibres, bullet is caught by fibre web which absorbs and disperses energy
Hard: soft shell with inserts of ballistic steel or ceramic (heavy), sucked for women
Defeat mechanism
On impact, bullet tip is eroded causing hertzian cracks to initiate and conoidal fracture of ceramic
Bullet core penetrates ceramic as it erodes, backing material bulges under pressure, core comes to rest in backing material
Bad multi-hit capability, as ceramic cracks and becomes weaker. Could use mosaic tile system
Materials
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SiC
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Hardness, strength and elastic modulus is better
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B4C
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Suffers from shatter gap - crystal structure collapses along specific orientations from shock induced amorphisation of the crystal structure
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