Environmental impacts of conventional and additive manufacturing for the production of Ti-6Al-4V knee implant: a life cycle approach
Ronan Lyons, Anthony Newell, Pezhman Ghadimi, Nikolaos Papakostas
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Raw materialEnvironmentally friendlyImplantLife-cycle assessmentProduction (economics)Manufacturing engineeringWork (physics)Energy consumptionMaterials scienceEngineeringProcess engineeringMechanical engineeringMedicineBiologyEcologyOrganic chemistrySurgeryChemistryMacroeconomicsElectrical engineeringEconomicsAdditive Manufacturing and 3D Printing TechnologiesOrthopaedic implants and arthroplastyInjection Molding Process and Properties