Additively manufactured porous tantalum implants

A review on selective laser sintering/melting (SLS/SLM) of aluminium alloy powders: Processing, microstructure, and properties

“…Functional graded materials [10], rapid tooling [6,11] and satellite technology [12] have been identified as promising areas for the application of SLS/SLM; Calignano et al [13] fabricated mechanisms for machine and robotic designs via SLS; Das and co-investigators [14,15] demonstrated the feasibility of fabricating components for defence applications by the selective laser sintering/hot isostatic pressing (SLS/HIP) technique; Stoodley et al [11], Hayashi et al [17], Hollander et al [18], Kanazawa et al [19] and Wauthle et al [20] employed SLS/SLM to process implants for medical purposes while Vasquez et al [21] recently developed new SLS materials for snowboarding applications. Ardila et al [22] and Seyda et al [23] also highlighted another important advantage of SLS/SLM in that it allows an efficient use of the material, due to the possibility to recycle and reuse un-melted metal powder.…”

Comparison of Single Ti6Al4V Struts Made Using Selective Laser Melting and Electron Beam Melting Subject to Part Orientation

“…Additive manufacturing and the three-dimensional design of components or structures using Ti 6 Al 4 V powder offer a wide range of unprecedented applications in medical technology thanks to their multifarious properties (biomedical compatibility, corrosion resistance, mechanical properties). The mechanical properties essentially define the suitability and successful application of mechanically optimized structures, such as bone substitutes, in biomedical fields [8][9][10].…”

“…Besides pure titanium and titanium alloys [4,5], pure tantalum [6,7] is also used as a material for the production of sufficiently resilient mechanical load-bearing elements.…”

Parameter optimization for selective laser melting of TIAL6V4 alloy by CO2 laser

“…На сегодняшний день SLM широко используется в аэрокосмической от-расли [1-3] и медицине [4][5] при производстве деталей сложной формы, таких как топливные форсунки, охлаждаемые камеры сгорания, хирургические и стоматологические импланты [6][7][8]. Обладание комплексом свойств, к которым относятся низкая плотность, высокая прочность, кор-розионная стойкость и биосовместимость [9][10][11], обуславливает широкое применение титанового сплава TiAl6V4 в селективном лазерном сплавлении.…”