A Short Review on Cellular Structure Design and Selective Laser Melting using Bio-compatible Ti6Al4V Material

Abstract

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is one of the most significant in bio medical application to manufacture the implant for bone repairing applications. The implant has a cellular structure inside which is used in biomedical implant, that is used to allow our bone ingrowth. The implant material should be biodegradable, non-toxic, have similar biomechanical properties and have a porous. Due to this reason it is very significant important to design and produce implant with high accuracy. In this review, design cellular structure and AM technology of fabrication biomedical implant using Selective Laser Melting (SLM) process is detail reviewed. As per According to necessities of medical orthopedic applications, the choice of high quality AM technology printing technique and Ti6Al4V metal powder were surveyed. Aside from this biomedical -AM printing application, the biocompatible Ti6Al4V alloy will be broadly used in implant bone application, in addition to that used for scaffold in tissue engineering.