“…After this stage the space holder will be removed and the metal sintered to allow further integration of the powder. A schematic of the method is shown in Several techniques (all taken from the powder metallurgy of conventional materials) have been used for the compaction of the Ti powder-space holder mixtures such as single and double ended cold axial pressing [41,43,52,58,60,62,63] , Uniaxial Hot pressing (HP) [55] and warm compaction [35,64,65] , producing titanium with a total porosity of up to 80 % [58,66] . As well as the typically limited range of part geometries that can be created, a drawback of applying these techniques is that the pressures involved are high, and this can cause the space holder particles to deform and break during compaction, altering the final shape of the pores.…”