Abstract
Titanium and its alloys have been widely used for various industrial and medical applications because of their excellent characteristics of low density, high corrosion resistance and high biocompatibility. However, it is not easy to produce the more complicated shape and precise components with low cost because of their poor workability. Therefore, Direct Laser Forming (DLF) which is one of Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques is desired to be a suitable and advanced processing technique for fabricating Ti alloy components. In this paper, DLF technique has been introduced to fabricate Ti-6Al-7Nb alloy parts for medical applications and Ti-6Al-4V alloy parts for aerospace and automobile by evaluating various properties.
