Question

Your company is using Ti-6Al-4V as a femoral stem component for total hip devices. The manufacturer of the Ti-6Al-4V alloy has two methods from which you can choose for making your hip stems. In examining samples made by each method, you observe the following microstructures for method A (top) and method B (bottom) respectively. Which method will you choose and why?

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Answer 1

Iwould choose the second device as it is successful in producing the monoithic image of the hip. The microstructure is columnar microstructures influenced by directional solidification with mesh and thus the microstructures and open-cellular structures are completely visible in the figure B