Pengaruh Heat Treatment untuk Mengembalikan Sifat Mekanik Kawat T-loop Segmental Stainless Steel terhadap Besaran Gaya yang Dihasilkan

Heat-treatment procedure with precise temperature and technique on the stainless-steel segmental T-loop retraction spring can restore the mechanical properties that decreases after a wire-bending process. The goal of this study was to compare the force produced by a stainless-steel segmental T-loop spring without and with heat-treatment on 4500C for 15 minutes, with various activation distance and gable. The design of the study was in-vitro laboratory experimental design. This study was performed at the Chemistry Laboratory of the Faculty of Science, ITB in 2006. Sample included 50 segmental T-loop springs with α and β angle of 0°–0°, 7.5°–7.5°, 15°–15°, and 22.5°–22.5°, and 30°–30° which consisted of 25 springs without heat-treatment and 25 springs with heat-treatment. Force was measured using autograph with a retraction distance of 1, 2, and 3 mm and the results were gained from ANOVA statistics analysis with a factorial design of 2x3x5 and 5 replications for each cell and posthoc Student Newman Keuls and Tukey test. The result of the statistic test showed that heat-treatment compared to no heat-treatment and interaction between heat-treatment and gable gives significant effect to the force created (p-value