Methods and materials for additive manufacturing: A critical review on advancements and challenges

MB Kumar, P Sathiya - Thin-Walled Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is the significantly progressing field in terms of methods,
materials, and performance of fabricated parts. Periodical evaluation on the understanding …

Surface modification of titanium and titanium alloys: technologies, developments, and future interests

LC Zhang, LY Chen, L Wang - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thanks to a considerable number of fascinating properties, titanium (Ti) and Ti alloys play
important roles in a variety of industrial sectors. However, Ti and Ti alloys could not satisfy all …

A review on biomedical titanium alloys: recent progress and prospect

LC Zhang, LY Chen - Advanced engineering materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Compared with stainless steel and Co–Cr‐based alloys, Ti and its alloys are widely used as
biomedical implants due to many fascinating properties, such as superior mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in additively manufactured titanium alloys by powder bed fusion and directed energy deposition: Microstructure, defects, and mechanical behavior

HY Ma, JC Wang, P Qin, YJ Liu, LY Chen… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ti and its alloys have been broadly adopted across various industries owing to their
outstanding properties, such as high strength-to-weight ratio, excellent fatigue performance …

[HTML][HTML] Towards load-bearing biomedical titanium-based alloys: From essential requirements to future developments

YW Cui, L Wang, LC Zhang - Progress in Materials Science, 2024 - Elsevier
The use of biomedical metallic materials in research and clinical applications has been an
important focus and a significant area of interest, primarily owing to their role in enhancing …

Recent development in beta titanium alloys for biomedical applications

LY Chen, YW Cui, LC Zhang - Metals, 2020 - mdpi.com
β-type titanium (Ti) alloys have attracted a lot of attention as novel biomedical materials in
the past decades due to their low elastic moduli and good biocompatibility. This article …

Additive manufacturing of titanium alloys by electron beam melting: a review

LC Zhang, Y Liu, S Li, Y Hao - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Electron beam melting (EBM), as one of metal additive manufacturing technologies, is
considered to be an innovative industrial production technology. Based on the layer‐wise …

Recent developments and opportunities in additive manufacturing of titanium-based matrix composites: A review

H Attar, S Ehtemam-Haghighi, D Kent… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Titanium-based materials are widely used in various areas due to their unique combination
of outstanding characteristics. Properties such as stiffness, strength and wear resistance of …

Selective laser melting of titanium alloys and titanium matrix composites for biomedical applications: a review

LC Zhang, H Attar - Advanced engineering materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Titanium materials are ideal targets for selective laser melting (SLM), because they are
expensive and difficult to machinery using traditional technologies. After briefly introducing …

Microstructure, defects and mechanical behavior of beta-type titanium porous structures manufactured by electron beam melting and selective laser melting

YJ Liu, SJ Li, HL Wang, WT Hou, YL Hao, R Yang… - Acta materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
This study investigates the differences in the microstructure, defects and mechanical
behavior of porous structures from a β-type Ti single bond24Nbsingle bond4Zrsingle bond …