TY - CHAP AU - Berend Denkena AU - Arne Lucas AU - Fritz Thorey AU - Hazibullah Waizy AU - Nina Angrisani AU - Andrea Meyer-Lindenberg ED - Waldemar A. Monteiro Y1 - 2011-09-12 PY - 2011 T1 - Biocompatible Magnesium Alloys as Degradable Implant Materials - Machining Induced Surface and Subsurface Properties and Implant Performance N2 - Magnesium is the lightest of all the metals and the sixth most abundant on Earth. Magnesium is ductile and the most machinable of all the metals. Magnesium alloy developments have traditionally been driven by requirements for lightweight materials to operate under increasingly demanding conditions (magnesium alloy castings, wrought products, powder metallurgy components, office equipment, nuclear applications, flares, sacrificial anodes for the protection of other metals, flash photography and tools). The biggest potential market for magnesium alloys is in the automotive industry. In recent years new magnesium alloys have demonstrated a superior corrosion resistance for aerospace and specialty applications. Considering the information above, special issues on magnesium alloys are exposed in this book: casting technology; surface modification of some special Mg alloys; protective carbon coatings on magnesium alloys; fatigue cracking behaviors of cast magnesium alloys and also, magnesium alloys biocompatibility as degradable implant materials. BT - Special Issues on Magnesium Alloys SP - Ch. 5 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/22793 DO - 10.5772/22793 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -