Additive manufacturing of titanium alloys in the biomedical field: processes, properties and applications

F Trevisan, F Calignano, A Aversa… - Journal of applied …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The mechanical properties and biocompatibility of titanium alloy medical devices and
implants produced by additive manufacturing (AM) technologies–in particular, selective …

[PDF][PDF] Producing hip implants of titanium alloys by additive manufacturing

A Popovich, V Sufiiarov, I Polozov… - … Journal of Bioprinting, 2016 - researchgate.net
Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, in particular Selective Laser Melting (SLM)
allows the production of complex-shaped individual implants from titanium alloys with high …

Additive manufacturing of titanium alloys for orthopedic applications: a materials science viewpoint

T Majumdar, N Eisenstein, JE Frith… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Titanium‐based orthopedic implants are increasingly being fabricated using additive
manufacturing (AM) processes such as selective laser melting (SLM), direct laser deposition …

Laser and electron‐beam powder‐bed additive manufacturing of metallic implants: A review on processes, materials and designs

SL Sing, J An, WY Yeong… - Journal of Orthopaedic …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Additive manufacturing (AM), also commonly known as 3D printing, allows the direct
fabrication of functional parts with complex shapes from digital models. In this review, the …

[HTML][HTML] Laser and electron beam additive manufacturing methods of fabricating titanium bone implants

B Wysocki, P Maj, R Sitek, J Buhagiar… - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Featured Application This work is a detailed comparison of the direct laser and electron
additive manufacturing methods, which could help scientific research institutes and …

Evaluation of the mechanical compatibility of additively manufactured porous Ti–25Ta alloy for load-bearing implant applications

N Soro, H Attar, E Brodie, M Veidt, A Molotnikov… - Journal of the …, 2019 - Elsevier
Integrating porous networks in load-bearing implants is essential in order to improve
mechanical compatibility with the host tissue. Additive manufacturing has enabled the …

[HTML][HTML] Alloys-by-design: A low-modulus titanium alloy for additively manufactured biomedical implants

E Alabort, YT Tang, D Barba, RC Reed - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The performance of many metal biomedical implants–such as fusion cages for spines–is
inherently limited by the mismatch of mechanical properties between the metal and the …

Design and 3D-printing of titanium bone implants: brief review of approach and clinical cases

VV Popov, G Muller-Kamskii, A Kovalevsky… - Biomedical engineering …, 2018 - Springer
Additive manufacturing (AM) is an alternative metal fabrication technology. The outstanding
advantage of AM (3D-printing, direct manufacturing), is the ability to form shapes that cannot …

[HTML][HTML] Selective laser melting of Ti-6Al-4V: the impact of post-processing on the tensile, fatigue and biological properties for medical implant applications

P Jamshidi, M Aristizabal, W Kong, V Villapun, SC Cox… - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
One of the main challenges in additive manufacturing (AM) of medical implants for the
treatment of bone tissue defects is to optimise the mechanical and biological performance …

A review of powdered additive manufacturing techniques for Ti-6al-4v biomedical applications

WSW Harun, NS Manam, M Kamariah, S Sharif… - Powder Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Rapid advancements in science and technology have assured biomaterials and their
associated fields towards becoming a multimillion-dollar industry. Biomaterials have been …