Selective laser melting of low-modulus biomedical Ti-24Nb-4Zr-8Sn alloy: Effect of laser point distance

Key Engineering Materials

Volumn 520, Issue , 2012, Pages 226-233

  Zhang, L C ^a   Sercombe, T B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Point distance; Scanning strategy; Selective laser melting; Titanium alloys

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); HARDNESS; MELTING; NIOBIUM ALLOYS; POWDER METALLURGY; SELECTIVE LASER MELTING; TIN ALLOYS; TITANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCALOY;

COMPLEX PROCESSING; LASER ENERGY DENSITY; POINT DISTANCES; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; PRODUCTION ROUTE; SCANNING STRATEGIES; SELECTIVE LASER MELTING (SLM); TECHNICAL ASPECTS;

LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING;

EID: 84867966706     PISSN: 10139826     EISSN: 16629795     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.520.226     Document Type: Conference Paper

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