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Ti-Nb based alloys have the potential to be used as structural implant materials due to their excellent bio-compatibility and ability to reduce stress shielding. The idea to additively manufacture Ti-Nb based alloys using selective laser melting (SLM) technology can further improve the resultant implant quality. However, the lack of economically sound and readily available pre-alloyed powder has pushed for the usage of composite powder as a means to hasten research pace in fabricating new alloy systems via SLM. The usage of Ti-Nb composite powder can lead to several problems, particularly the issue of macro-segregation. Hence, this paper presents the potential of laser re-melting scanning strategy to address macro-segregation without sacrificing (or even improving) density of parts fabricated by SLM.
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