Manufacturing and characterization of Ti6Al4V lattice components manufactured by selective laser melting

Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4803-4822

  Campanelli, Sabina L ^a   Contuzzi, Nicola ^a   Ludovico, Antonio D ^a   Caiazzo, Fabrizia ^b   Cardaropoli, Francesco ^b   Sergi, Vincenzo ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Characterization; Micro lattice structures; Selective laser melting; Tailored porosity; Ti6Al4V titanium alloy

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; COMPRESSION TESTING; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; LATTICE STRUCTURES; LIGHTWEIGHT COMPONENTS; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; SELECTIVE LASER MELTING; TI6AL4V TITANIUM ALLOYS; TITANIUM ALLOY TI6AL4V;

3D PRINTERS;

EID: 84903176991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma7064803     Document Type: Article

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