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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE

Fatigue behavior of additively manufactured Ti3Al2V alloy

Amit Bandyopadhyay1* ,  Sushant Ciliveri1 ,  Stefano Guariento1 ,  Nathan Zuckschwerdt1 ,  William W. Hogg1
MSAM 2023, 2(3), 1705 https://doi.org/10.36922/msam.1705
Submitted: 29 August 2023 | Accepted: 12 September 2023 | Published: 27 September 2023
© 2023 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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Abstract

In this study, we measured the tensile, compression, and fatigue behavior of additively manufactured Ti3Al2V as a function of build orientation. Ti3Al2V alloy was prepared by mixing commercially pure titanium and Ti6Al4V in 1:1 wt. ratio. Laser powder bed fusion-based additive manufacturing technique was used to fabricate the samples. Tensile tests resulted in an ultimate strength of 989 ± 8 MPa for Ti3Al2V. Ti6Al4V 90° orientation samples showed a compressive yield strength of 1178 ± 33 MPa and that for Ti3Al2V 90° orientation samples were 968 ± 24 MPa. By varying the build orientation to account for anisotropy, Ti32 45° and Ti32 0° samples displayed almost similar compressive yield strength values of 1071 ± 16 and 1051 ± 18 MPa, respectively, which were higher than that of Ti32 90° sample. Fatigue loading revealed an endurance limit (10 million cycles) of 250 MPa for Ti6Al4V and of 219 MPa for Ti3Al2V built at 90° orientation. The effect of the build orientation was significant under fatigue loading; Ti3Al2V built at 45° and 0° orientations displayed endurance limits of 387.5 MPa and 512 MPa, respectively; more than two-fold increment in endurance limit was observed. In conclusion, the superior attributes of Ti3Al2V alloy over Ti6Al4V alloy, as demonstrated in this study, justify its potential in load-bearing applications, particularly for use in orthopedic devices.

Keywords
Additive manufacturing
Titanium alloys
Alloy design
Load-bearing implants
Fatigue behavior
Funding
The authors would like to acknowledge financial support from the National Science Foundation under Grant Number CMMI 1934230. The research results reported in this publication are supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers R01 AR067306 and R01 AR078241. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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