South China University of Technology

Xuan Luo

Chao Yang

Yuanyuan Li

Ning Li

Dongdong Li

Yanguo Qin

The present invention relates to a Si-containing high-strength and low-modulus medical titanium alloy, and an additive manufacturing method and use thereof. The additive manufacturing method comprises alloy ingredient design, powder preparation, model construction and substrate preheating, and additive manufacturing molding; wherein the Si-containing high-strength and low-modulus medical titanium alloy is designed in the ingredient proportion of Ti 60-70 at. %, Nb 16-24 at. %, Zr 4-14 at. %, Ta 1-8 at. %, Si 0.1-5 at. %. The principle of the present invention is design of a medical β-type titanium alloy having high-strength and low-modulus and good biocompatibility by using d-electron theory; reducing the difference of thermal expansion between the silicide and the β-Ti phase by preheating, and at the same time, ensuring that there is a sufficient degree of cooling in the additive manufacturing process to promote the transition of the alloy from the divorced eutectic reaction to the precipitation reaction, thereby solving the common problems, such as the deterioration of mechanical properties caused by the continuous distribution of the Si-containing phase along the grain boundary and the cracking caused by the difference of thermal expansion coefficient between different phases.

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