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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
Volume 528, Issue 24, Pages 7423-7431Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2011.06.045
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Powder metallurgy; Titanium alloys; Porous materials; Mechanical characterization; Tomography
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- Quest (Quantitative Engineering of Skeletal Tissues) K.U.Leuven [IDO 05/009]
- agency for Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders [IWT/OZM/080436, IWT/OZM/090655]
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Despite the fact that additive manufacturing (AM) techniques allow to manufacture complex porous parts with a controlled architecture, differences can occur between designed and as-produced morphological properties. Therefore this study aimed at optimizing the robustness and controllability of the production of porous Ti6Al4V structures using selective laser melting (SLM) by reducing the mismatch between designed and as-produced morphological and mechanical properties in two runs. In the first run, porous Ti6Al4V structures with different pore sizes were designed, manufactured by SLM, analyzed by microfocus X-ray computed tomography (micro-CT) image analysis and compared to the original design. The comparison was based on the following morphological parameters: pore size, strut thickness, porosity, surface area and structure volume. Integration of the mismatch between designed and measured properties into a second run enabled a decrease of the mismatch. For example, for the average pore size the mismatch decreased from 45% to 5%. The demonstrated protocol is furthermore applicable to other 3D structures, properties and production techniques, powder metallurgy, titanium alloys, porous materials, mechanical characterization, tomography. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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