Structural, physical, and mechanical properties of the TiO2added hydroxyapatite composites

Abstract

Composites are important as they have been used in a variety of different fields. Therefore, production and testing of composites have become one of the most popular topics for researchers. In this work, the physical, structural, and mechanical properties such as packing density (V t ), bond dissociation energy (G t ), Young's (E), bulk (B), shear (S), longitudinal (L), indentation (E∗) moduli, and Poisson's ratio (σ) were obtained for (100-x)HAP + xTiO2 composite, where x = 0, 3, 7.5, and 10 wt%. The variations in those properties with TiO2 rate in HAP composites were tested.