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Espinar Escalona, E.; Llamas Carreras, José María; Barrera Mora, José Mª; Abalos-Labruzzi, Camilo; Gil Mur, Francisco Javier
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This document is a artículoDate2013
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http://hdl.handle.net/10550/35633
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NiTi spring coils were used to obtain large deformation under a constant force. The device consists on a NiTi coil
spring, superelastic at body temperature, in order to have a stress plateau during the austenitic retransformation
during the unloading. The temperature variations induced changes in the spring force.
Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of the temperature variations in the spring forces and
corrosion behaviour simulating the ingestion hot/cold drinks and food.
Study
D
esign: The springs were subjected to a tensile force using universal testing machine MTS-Adamel (100 N
load cell). All tests were performed in artificial saliva maintained at different temperatures. The corrosion tests
were performed according to the ISO-standard 10993-15:2000.
Results: The increase in temperature of 18
o
C induced an increase in the spring force of 30%. However, when the
temperature returns to 37
o
C the distraction force recovers near the initial level. After cooling down the spring to
15
o
C, the force decreased by 46%. This investigation show as the temperature increase, the corrosion potential
shifts towards negative values and the corrosion density is rising.
Conclusions: The changes of the temperatures do not modify the superelastic behaviour of the NiTi closed-coil
springs. The corrosion potential of NiTi in artificial saliva is decreasing by the rise of the temperatures.
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Espinar Escalona, E. ; Llamas Carreras, José María ; Barrera Mora, José Mª ; Abalos Lasbrucci, Camilo ; Gil Mur, Francisco Javier. Effect of temperature on the orthodontic clinical applications of niti closed-coil springs. En: Medicina oral, patología oral y cirugía bucal. Ed inglesa, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 4: 721-724 |