Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Engineering
Fundamental Studies Of Co-Base Superalloy Biomedical Prototypes Fabricated By Electron Beam Melting: Microstructures And Microstructural Architecture, Sara M. Gaytan
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Rapid prototyping, especially electron beam melting (EBM) technology by ARCAM have proven to provide outstanding microstructural and mechanical properties on different alloys fabricated by this technology. Being a computer designed driven technology, complex components, that are hard or even impossible to fabricate by traditional manufacturing techniques, can be fabricated by layer-by-layer EBM technology.
Microstructural and mechanical properties are compared for an EBM femoral knee component prototype with a traditionally-fabricated and body-removed femoral knee implant. Block and cylindrical shape components fabricated by EBM were also analyzed for this project. The alloy utilized for these components is Co-26Cr-6Mo-0.2C characterized by the standards …