Metals (Apr 2015)

Selective Laser Melting of Ti-45Nb Alloy

  • Holger Schwab,
  • Konda Gokuldoss Prashanth,
  • Lukas Löber,
  • Uta Kühn,
  • Jürgen Eckert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/met5020686
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2
pp. 686 – 694

Abstract

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Ti-45Nb is one of the potential alloys that can be applied for biomedical applications as implants due to its low Young’s modulus. Ti-45Nb (wt.%) gas atomized powders were used to produce bulk samples by selective laser melting with three different parameter sets (energy inputs). A β-phase microstructure consisting of elliptical grains with an enriched edge of titanium was observed by scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction studies. The mechanical properties of these samples were evaluated using hardness and compression tests, which suggested that the strength of the samples increases with increasing energy input within the range considered.

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