Laser-assisted jet electrochemical machining of titanium-based biomedical alloy

Abstract

Titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) is best among various metallic materials for making medical implants due to their longer life and surface topology to promote osseointegration. Ti-6Al-4V has excellent mechanical properties as well as superior biological properties along with higher corrosion resistance. For an implant material, its machining plays an important role to make it fit for the medical applications. This chapter mainly focuses on machining and surface characteristics of Ti-6Al-4V when machined with laser-assisted jet electrochemical machining process. The Taguchi methodology-based design of experiments L25 (55) employed to study the effect of various parameters of the developed LAJECM setup on various response characteristics is investigated and explained with the help of S/N ratio, analysis of variance, and scanning electron micrograph.