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Machinability Assessment of Titanium Alloy Ti-6Al-4V for Biomedical Applications
Polishetty A, Littlefair G, Praveen Kumar K.
Published in Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
2014
Volume: 941-944
   
Pages: 1985 - 1990
Abstract
Titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) has a wide range of application in various fields of engineering. Titanium is mainly used to manufacture aerospace components like landing gear, fuselage, wings, engines etc. and biomedical components like hip joint, knee joint, dental implants etc. Titanium has outstanding material properties such as corrosion resistance, fatigue strength, tensile strength and a very good biocompatibility which makes this material very alluring for biomedical applications. Contrary, the machinability of the material is problematic because of the phase transformations and thus, titanium alloy is a challenge for machining operation. This research is a comparative analysis between the implants manufactured by traditional method of casting and machining. The femoral stem of the hip joint replacement is designed and the component is machined using a five-axis CNC machine. The machined component was subjected to surface roughness testing, tensile testing and bulk hardness testing. The values were compared with the values of titanium implants manufactured by casting.
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JournalAdvanced Materials Research
PublisherTrans Tech Publications, Ltd.
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