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Toward Manufacturing Quality Ti-6Al-4V Lattice Struts by Selective Electron Beam Melting (SEBM) for Lattice Design

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Intricate metal lattice structures enabled by additive manufacturing (AM) are finding increasing applications. We report a detailed study of the manufacturability of Ti-6Al-4V lattice struts by selective electron beam manufacturing (SEBM). A total of 165 strut samples with design diameters of 0.05–3.0 mm are manufactured at 11 different inclination angles from 0° to 90°. The discrepancies between the design and manufactured diameters and the surface roughness and 3D internal defect features of the strut samples are characterized in detail and discussed. Essential research data are produced for the design and manufacture of quality Ti-6Al-4V struts for lattice design by SEBM.

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Acknowledgements

X.Z. Zhang acknowledges the scholarship received from the China Scholarship Council. The authors thank the funding support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China through Grant 51528401, the Australian Research Council through LP140100607, and the Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility at RMIT University.

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, People’s Republic of China

    X. Z. Zhang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Porous Metal Materials, Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research, Xi’an, 710016, People’s Republic of China

    X. Z. Zhang, H. P. Tang, L. Jia & M. Qian

  3. Centre for Additive Manufacturing, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia

    X. Z. Zhang, M. Leary, T. Song & M. Qian

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Zhang, X.Z., Tang, H.P., Leary, M. et al. Toward Manufacturing Quality Ti-6Al-4V Lattice Struts by Selective Electron Beam Melting (SEBM) for Lattice Design. JOM 70, 1870–1876 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-018-3030-x

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