Materials and Methods

This section gives the detailed description of the manufacturing process, specimen design and experimental method employed in the present study.
The cellular materials were fabricated via LPBF technology using an EOS machine equipped with a 400 W laser, at the Lincotek Medical facility, Italy. The samples were manufactured by using a biomedical grade titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V) powder with particle size in the range of 15-45 µm and with a layer thickness of 60 µm. All the specimens were then subjected to heat treatment under proprietary conditions to transform the as-built α’-martensitic microstructure into a stable α+β phase and to relive the residual stress from the LPBF process.

Manufacturing and Specimen Design