Materials and tools

In biomaterials engineering, it’s easy to fall back on the intuition derived from traditional materials science: since an implant must withstand loads, not corrode, not…

A crack in a metal component is almost never merely a sign of damage. For an engineer, it is a trace of the history of…

Powder metallurgy is a method of producing machine parts and tools by sintering metal powders in a solid state, and the resulting components are referred…

Although materials science most often refers to steels and alloys of aluminum and copper, many key technical applications are based on more specialized non-ferrous metal…

Magnesium is a silvery-grey metal and, most importantly from an engineering point of view, has the lowest specific weight of any metal commonly used in…

Steels and alloys with special properties are designed when the durability of a component is no longer determined solely by classic mechanical parameters, and one…

Structural alloy steels are steels intended for machine and equipment components that operate in conditions considered typical for structural mechanics, i.e., at temperatures ranging from…

Carbon steel can achieve a very wide range of properties through heat treatment, but in many applications this is still not enough. The introduction of…

In pure metals, the course of transformations is usually easy to grasp: melting and solidification occur at a single, precisely defined temperature, as do some…

Synthetic polymers have become one of the most important groups of biomaterials today, alongside metals and ceramics. In medicine, they are used in disposable products,…

Metals play a completely different role in biomedical engineering than ceramics or polymers. They are distinguished primarily by their excellent mechanical properties and high electrical…

Ceramics are commonly associated with porcelain, glass, or architectural elements. In biomedical engineering, however, the term has a much broader meaning. Ceramics are inorganic, non-metallic…