Tamayo José A, Riascos Mateo, Vargas Carlos A, Baena Libia M
Grupo Calidad, Metrología y Producción, Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano (ITM), Medellín, Colombia.
Grupo Materiales Avanzados y Energía (Matyer), Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano (ITM), Medellín, Colombia.
Heliyon. 2021 May 7;7(5):e06892. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06892. eCollection 2021 May.
Additive Manufacturing (AM) or rapid prototyping technologies are presented as one of the best options to produce customized prostheses and implants with high-level requirements in terms of complex geometries, mechanical properties, and short production times. The AM method that has been more investigated to obtain metallic implants for medical and biomedical use is Electron Beam Melting (EBM), which is based on the powder bed fusion technique. One of the most common metals employed to manufacture medical implants is titanium. Although discovered in 1790, titanium and its alloys only started to be used as engineering materials for biomedical prostheses after the 1950s. In the biomedical field, these materials have been mainly employed to facilitate bone adhesion and fixation, as well as for joint replacement surgeries, thanks to their good chemical, mechanical, and biocompatibility properties. Therefore, this study aims to collect relevant and up-to-date information from an exhaustive literature review on EBM and its applications in the medical and biomedical fields. This AM method has become increasingly popular in the manufacturing sector due to its great versatility and geometry control.
增材制造（AM）或快速成型技术被视为生产定制假体和植入物的最佳选择之一，这些假体和植入物在复杂几何形状、机械性能和短生产时间方面有高水平要求。为获得用于医疗和生物医学用途的金属植入物而研究较多的增材制造方法是电子束熔炼（EBM），它基于粉末床熔融技术。用于制造医疗植入物的最常见金属之一是钛。尽管钛在1790年就被发现，但直到20世纪50年代后，钛及其合金才开始被用作生物医学假体的工程材料。在生物医学领域，由于其良好的化学、机械和生物相容性，这些材料主要用于促进骨粘附和固定，以及关节置换手术。因此，本研究旨在通过详尽的文献综述收集有关电子束熔炼及其在医疗和生物医学领域应用的相关和最新信息。这种增材制造方法因其高度的通用性和几何形状控制在制造业中越来越受欢迎。
