Quantitative evaluation of the adhesion of bioactive glasses onto Ti6Al4V substrates

This paper presents a new method for applying a uniform thickness bioactive glass coating to a Ti6Al4V substrate and postulates a fracture mechanics testing methodology to quantify the glass/metal adhesion in terms of a measured critical strain energy release rate (GIC). Bi-layer double cantilever beam (DCB) test specimens were developed for this purpose and were found to generate repeatable and consistent measures of GIC for the tested system. …