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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 388, 2023
2023 RAPDASA-RobMech-PRASA-AMI Conference Advanced Manufacturing Beyond Borders - The 24th Annual International RAPDASA Conference joined by RobMech, PRASA and AMI, hosted by CSIR and CUT
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Article Number | 08003 | |
Number of page(s) | 11 | |
Section | AM Material and Part Characterisation | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202338808003 | |
Published online | 15 December 2023 |
Atomisation of Ti-6Ta-1.5Zr-0.2Ru-5Cu (wt%) for additive manufacturing for biomedical applications
1 School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering and DSI-NRF CoE in Strong Materials, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
2 School of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Industrial Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
3 AMAZEMET, Warsaw, Poland
4 Advanced Materials Division, Mintek, South Africa
* Corresponding author: 820850@students.wits.ac.za
The use of titanium alloys is growing fast as people have longer life expectancies and small, customised, biomedical implants, especially in dental applications, encourage the use of additive manufacturing (AM) to shape them. The Ti-6Ta-1.5Zr-0.2Ru-5Cu (wt%) alloy has been identified as a potential alloy for biomedical applications. Since laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) requires starting powders to be spherical and within a 10-100 μm size range, the Ti-6Ta-1.5Zr-0.2Ru-5Cu (wt%) powder was ultrasonically atomised and then analysed by a Malvern Mastersizer, XRD and SEM-EDX to ascertain that it met the requirements of L-PBF.
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