TWI has an ideal fit with the Orthopaedics sector as our cross-sector expertise lies within the areas of manipulating the properties of metals, ceramics and polymers to increase wear resistance and reduce the chances of failure. The drive of this industry sector is towards improving material properties and processes to give our member's products a technical and economic advantage.
As well as our traditional competencies (materials joining and performance) we are able to offer the following capabilities to this sector:
- Joining of dissimilar materials
- Surface treatments of metals and polymers using power beams
- Wear & corrosion resistant materials/coatings
- Cold spray metals onto metals, ceramics and polymers
- Plasma spraying
- Laser Direct Metal Deposition
- Composite materials & Joining
- Electronic & Sensor Technology
- Prototype design and development
- Failure analysis
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