Researches Regarding the Usage of Titanium Alloys in Cranial Implants

Abstract:

In the last few decades, the concept of flexible manufacturing has started to gain more and more attention, as an adaptation of production methods to the increasingly varied demands by customers. Therefore, new procedures have been introduced as alternatives to the classical ones, a very promising one being incremental forming [. A possible application for this new procedure, targeted by the authors of this paper, is the manufacturing of custom-shaped prosthetic parts for use in various areas of human medicine. Such prostheses can have a functional role, when they target the replacing of a functional component of the human body, or an esthetic role, when they target the solving of problems related to the appearance of the human body. Among all titanium and its alloys, the mainly used materials in biomedical field are the commercially pure titanium (cp Ti, grade 2) and Ti6Al4V (grade 5) alloy [.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 657)
• Pages: 173-177
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.657.173
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Carmen Cotigă*, Octavian Bologa, Sever Gabriel Racz, Radu Eugen Breaz
• Keywords: Incremental Forming, Prosthetic Part, Ti-6Al-4V Alloy

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