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