TY - GEN
T1 - Electron beam melting
T2 - 7th International Conference on Processing and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials, THERMEC'2011
AU - Koptyug, Andrey
AU - Rännar, Lars Erik
AU - Bäckström, Mikael
AU - Klingvall, Rebecca P.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This paper presents some results achieved in the biomedical applications of the EBM® technology, and describes the resolved and unresolved challenges presented by modern medical implant manufacturing. In particular it outlines the issues related to the cellular structure design and metal surface modification. Moving to precision control of the metal surface at a microand sub-micrometer scale is a serious challenge to the EBM® processing, because it uses the powder with average grain size of about 0.04 to 0.1 mm. Though manufacturing of components with solidmesh geometry and porous surfaces using EBM® is quite possible, post- processing (for example chemical or electrochemical) is needed to achieve desired control of the surface at smaller scales to realize full potential of the technology for biomedical applications.
AB - This paper presents some results achieved in the biomedical applications of the EBM® technology, and describes the resolved and unresolved challenges presented by modern medical implant manufacturing. In particular it outlines the issues related to the cellular structure design and metal surface modification. Moving to precision control of the metal surface at a microand sub-micrometer scale is a serious challenge to the EBM® processing, because it uses the powder with average grain size of about 0.04 to 0.1 mm. Though manufacturing of components with solidmesh geometry and porous surfaces using EBM® is quite possible, post- processing (for example chemical or electrochemical) is needed to achieve desired control of the surface at smaller scales to realize full potential of the technology for biomedical applications.
KW - Additive manufacturing
KW - Electron beam melting
KW - Medical implants
KW - Surface treatment
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U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.706-709.532
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.706-709.532
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84856141920
SN - 9783037853030
T3 - Materials Science Forum
SP - 532
EP - 537
BT - THERMEC 2011
PB - Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Y2 - 1 August 2011 through 5 August 2011
ER -