Print Email Facebook Twitter Effects of heat treatment on microstructure and mechanical behaviour of additive manufactured porous Ti6Al4V Title Effects of heat treatment on microstructure and mechanical behaviour of additive manufactured porous Ti6Al4V Author Ahmadi, S.M. (TU Delft (OLD) MSE-5; TU Delft Biomaterials & Tissue Biomechanics) Ashok Kumar Jain, R. K. Zadpoor, A.A. (TU Delft Biomaterials & Tissue Biomechanics) Ayas, C. (TU Delft Computational Design and Mechanics) Popovich, V. (TU Delft (OLD) MSE-5) Date 2018 Abstract Titanium and its alloys such as Ti6Al4V play a major role in the medical industry as bone implants. Nowadays, by the aid of additive manufacturing (AM), it is possible to manufacture porous complex structures which mimic human bone. However, AM parts are near net shape and post processing may be needed to improve their mechanical properties. For instance, AM Ti6Al4V samples may be brittle and incapable of withstanding dynamic mechanical loads due to their martensitic microstructure. The aim of this study was to apply two different heat treatment regimes (below and above β-transus) to investigate their effects on the microstructure and mechanical properties of porous Ti6Al4V specimens. After heat treatment, fine acicular ′ martensitic microstructure was transformed to a mixture of and β phases. The ductility of the heat-treated specimens, as well as some mechanical properties such as hardness, plateau stress, and first maximum stress changed while the density and elastic gradient of the porous structure remained unchanged. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:efe8e96e-bcd4-4435-8fa2-36f8676a33e2 DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/293/1/012009 ISSN 1757-8981 Source IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 293 (1) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2018 S.M. Ahmadi, R. K. Ashok Kumar Jain, A.A. Zadpoor, C. Ayas, V. Popovich Files PDF Ahmadi_2017_IOP_Conf._Ser ... 012009.pdf 903.39 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:efe8e96e-bcd4-4435-8fa2-36f8676a33e2/datastream/OBJ/view