Manufacturing & Experimental Testing
Titanium foam samples were created using commercially pure Ti (Grade 1) metal powder, based on CAD models using the Unit Cell (UC) approach. This involved creating a CAD model of the porous structures with its 3D geometries completely filled by cubic unit cells and a connected lattice structure by joining sets of points and vectors in 3D space to form regular octahedron. Foam structures were produced using SLM, and porosity and pore size distributions calculated and measured in relation to fluid flow analyses.