Titanium strips are made from titanium and titanium alloys.
Titanium strips are used in medical applications because they have good fracture resistance, excellent strength, and compatibility with the human body. Titanium strips are mostly used in making pacemakers and orthopedic devices.
Titanium has bone bonding and bone formation ability and shows excellent corrosion resistance.
Due to these properties, titanium strips are mostly used in dental implants and medical devices like spinal fixators, artificial joints, and bone fixators.
Titanium grade (Ti 6A-4V ELI) 23 strips are very popular in the medical field for their outstanding strength, biocompatibility, and MRI compatibility.
To improve the formability and tensile strength, titanium strips passed through the hot rolling and annealing processes. With cold rolling, we can easily achieve desired thickness and perfect surface finish. We can easily remove the inner stress and lower carbon content through annealing.
What is a titanium strip?
Titanium is a very useful metal and has some outstanding properties like high-temperature resistance, good corrosion resistance, and exceptional strength-to-weight ratio.
Due to these properties, titanium and its alloy are mostly used in the medical field, chemical processing, and aerospace industries.
The titanium strips are light in weight, have good workability, and weldability can be stable in extreme hot and cold conditions.
We can achieve the desired surface finish of titanium strips by annealing and cold rolling processes.
Typically, titanium strips must be delivered in an annealed condition, but under certain conditions, they may also be delivered in an as-rolled or cold-worked condition.
Titanium strips after annealing or cold rolling available size range from 0.02mm to 1.0mm in thickness and 10mm to 600mm in width.
Which medical applications have titanium strips?
Titanium strips are used in making Implantable medical equipment like pacemakers, defibrillators, neurostimulators, and infusion pumps.
Smaller devices that enable safe, external recharging for a variety of transformational neuromodulator treatment applications can be produced using titanium strips.
For implantable cardiac shields, biocompatible titanium strips material offers exceptional qualities.
The titanium strips are primarily used in orthopedic surgery as shoulder, hip, knee, and elbow joint replacement, especially for back surgery.
Compared to other metals, the body of a common human accepts titanium more easily.
Due to their low risk of rejection, titanium alloys Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al-4V ELI are frequently used in medical equipment. These alloys are particularly nonreactive with body fluid.
Titanium strips are also used in dentition fixation and for making artificial dental roots.
Where titanium strips are mostly used?
The titanium strips are mostly used in heat exchanger welded tubes used in power plants.
Titanium is a common metal used in surgical tools, prosthetics, jewelry, bicycle frames, tennis rackets, and other good-performance products.
While titanium weighs nearly half as much as steel, it is equally strong. It is just approximately 60% heavier but twice as strong as aluminum. We can make titanium alloys combined with aluminum, iron, vanadium, molybdenum, and nickel for specific use where high performance is required.
Titanium alloys are used in spacecraft, bearings, and military equipment.
Titanium alloys are also used in aircraft engines for their lightweight, high strength, and excellent corrosion resistance properties. Titanium oxides are mostly utilized in high-quality white paints to improve brightness and reflectivity.
How durable are titanium strips?
Titanium strips are more durable and reliable due to their strength.
Titanium is one of the most solid and durable materials on earth. Titanium strips have durability and a high strength-to-low weight ratio.
This fact gives you a similar degree of strength as steel but considerably less weight, making it easier to work with; titanium is becoming more and more popular.
The natural resistance of titanium strips against corrosion and rust makes them more durable and long-lasting in any weather condition and preferable for indoor and outdoor usage. It won’t be affected by rust or corrosion for many years.
Titanium is exceptionally light in weight and used for making jewelry. Some individuals may even be surprised by its lightweight and like its jewelry. Because it resists bending, splitting and scratches well, titanium is an extremely durable material.
Advantages of using titanium strips in medical applications
- Strong enough
- Lightweight in structure
- Corrosion resistance in nature
- Nontoxic and biocompatible
- Durable and Non-ferromagnetic
- Osseo integrated bone joining with unnatural implant
Additionally, titanium is very strong and long-lasting. Titanium cages, rods, plates, and pins can withstand up to 20 years when they are implanted into the body. Moreover, dental titanium can sustain even longer when used for implants and posts.
The non-ferromagnetic nature of titanium, which enables patients with titanium implants to be securely evaluated with MRIs and NMRIs, is another advantage of titanium for medical usage.
Osseointegration is a rare process in which the natural bone and tissue of your body really join with the unnatural implant.
What makes titanium strips so special?
Titanium strips have considerably higher melting points than stainless steel strips.
Titanium and titanium alloys are employed in aircraft, missiles, and rockets where strength, low weight, and tolerance to high temperatures are vital factors.
This is due to the combination of its low weight and excellent strength.
The corrosion-resistant light in weight, strength, and durability these properties make titanium strips so special for use in many industries.
Conclusion
No doubt, Titanium strips are a very useful material.
Its use in medical applications like dentistry, orthopedic surgery, and surgical instruments is impressive.
Titanium strips can easily use in place of stainless steel strips because titanium is light in weight than stainless and suitable in strength.
