Hot isostatic pressing. . . What is it? How is HIPing benefiting the medical industry? What is its place in additive manufacturing? In today's Technical Tuesday, Heat Treat Today is doing a deep dive into HIPing and its benefits. Check out these resources for some hot takes on HIPing.
Can You HIP It? Investigating Hot Isostatic Pressing
"HIP was initially developed as a diffusion bonding technique. In diffusion bonding, high heat and pressure work together to weld similar or dissimilar metal surfaces without filler materials."
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"Modern HIP machinery is an extremely good fit with the traditional heat treatment market, offering the opportunity to further adjust material properties through tailored HIP cycles."
Hot Isostatic Pressing for Orthopaedic Implants
Check out what Chad Beamer and Magnus Ahlfors at Quintus Technologies had to say about HIPing. Shrinkage, gas porosity, and lack of fusion between layers are all things that do not belong in medical implants. Implants manufactured with metal injection molding and casting often still contain defects, but HIPing eliminates those defects and produces a 100% dense material. HIPing is widely used across the medical industry to reduce the occurrence of these issues.
"The elimination of defects results in improved fatigue properties, ductility, and fracture toughness. For this reason, HIP is widely used for orthopaedic implants like hip, knee, spine, ankle, wrist as well as dental implants to ensure quality and performance and prevent early failure of the implant inside the patient."
Heat Treat Radio: Hot Isostatic Pressing – Join the Revolution
High temperatures, high pressures. That's HIPing. Cliff Orcutt of American Isostatic Presses, Inc. describes HIPing as "pressurize sintering." Because of the high pressure, HIPing is faster and leads to less part deformation. In this episode of Heat Treat Radio, learn the many applications of HIPing (including ceramics) and learn if outsourcing is right for you.
"In HIP, since you’re starting with powders that are solid, you can blend things like graphite powder and steel. You couldn’t blend them very well in a molten state, but in here, you can. And, you can squeeze it to solid, you can get interlocking and bonding and diffusion bonding materials that you couldn’t otherwise. So, you can make things you couldn’t make any other way."
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