Abstract

In this paper, the biomechanical compatibility of a novel metastable β-titanium (Ti) alloy has been investigated after subjecting it to different thermo-mechanical processing (TMP) conditions. The TMP scheme comprises of hot plastic deformation coupled with solution treatments in various conditions. Factorial design of experiment is applied to systematically collect data for mechanical strength of the alloy. Several diagnostic tests are performed to verify the validity of hypotheses correlated with the collected data. The statistical technique (analysis of variance ANOVA) is employed to determine which TMP parameters and interaction between parameters significantly affect the response variable. In addition, optimization is carried out to establish the TMP parameters that result in optimum value of the response variable.