MT60134: Biomaterials
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| Course name | Biomaterials | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Offered by | Metallurgical & Materials Engineering | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| L-T-P | 3-0-0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Semester | Spring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Syllabus
Syllabus mentioned in ERP
Introduction: Natural biological materials: structure and properties (bone, skin and other elastic tissues). Biocompatibility: tissue response to biomaterials; corrosion. Testing of biomaterials: Metallic materials in medical application: Stainless steel, cobalt based alloys, titanium based alloys (including shape memory alloys). Ceramics and glasses-bioceramics: nearly inert ceramics, bio-reactive glasses and glass ceramics, porous ceramics; Calcium phosphate ceramics: grafts, coatings Physico-chemical surface modification of materials used in medicine. Composites - reinforcing systems-fabrication, mechanical properties, absorbable matrix composites, non-absorbable matrix composites, Implants: internal fracture fixation. joint replacement, shape memory alloys.