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Study on high-purity Titanium powder for biomedical application

C. G. DUMITRAS1, R. CERNAT2,* , T. STAMATE2, M. VARDAVOULIAS3

Affiliation

  1. Technical University ”Gheorghe Asachi” of Iasi, Romania
  2. ”Gr.T.Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Romania
  3. PyroGenesis SA, Lavrio, Greece

Abstract

Titanium is most commonly associated with jet engines and airframes, but the most recent researches indicate its applicability for fittings for prosthetic devices and artificial heart. Titanium castings are often more economical than small fabricated parts, metal injection moulded, stamped and forged parts. The paper presents an experimental factorial plan applied to a new process of obtaining high purity titanium powder in order to optimize this process and to control the amount of titanium powder in a range of specific diameters. The process is based on plasma atomization. The resulting titanium powder was used in obtaining titanium moulded posts. A FE analysis was carried out in order to compare the response of different types of materials to the behavior of titanium posts..

Keywords

Titanium powder, Biomedical application, Optimize, Experimental data, Atomization.

Submitted at: July 19, 2014
Accepted at: Nov. 13, 2014

Citation

C. G. DUMITRAS, R. CERNAT, T. STAMATE, M. VARDAVOULIAS, Study on high-purity Titanium powder for biomedical application, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 16, Iss. 11-12, pp. 1447-1455 (2014)