Usinabilidade e integridade superficial de implantes dentários

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Manera, Rodolfo da Silva [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Implantes dentários; Metais - Usinabilidade; Titanio; Dental implants
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/123171; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/22-04-2015/000825077.pdf

Metallic alloys applied to implants have been researched aiming at improving their mechanical properties, microstructure and biocompatibility. Despite appearing several types of polymers in the last years, titanium and its alloys are still used extensively in the implantology. Titanium is considered a hard-to-cut material, because it develops high stresses and temperatures in a small cutting area (2/3 smaller than for other materials). Thus cutting parameters and tools need to be specified properly, since both raw material and manufacturing process increase the costs of the final product. This research determined the effects of cutting speed and depth of cut on machinability (cutting force and specific cutting energy) and surface integrity (microhardness and roughness) when threading pure commercially dental implants (grade 4, ASTM F67). Machining tests were carried out in a CNC lathe by applying TiAlN coated carbides and cutting fluid. Based on Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), the main results indicated that cutting parameters influence on machinability and surface integrity of the implant screw, being depth of cut the more influent. Low and high levels of depth of cut increase specific cutting energy and cutting force, respectively, hardening the screw subsurface and damaging the roughness of the thread flanks. Lower cutting speeds trend to raise both cutting force and specific cutting energy, damaging the screw finishing, but they do not affect its subsurface microhardness. Skewness and Kurtosis roughness parameters indicated the predominance of spiky surface on screw which is favorable to osseointegration. Tests at High-Speed Cutting (HSC) showed it is possible to machine implant screws, but depth of cut cannot be high so that avoiding vibration in threads