Preliminary development of a Wire and Arc Additive Manufacturing system (WAAM)
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In this article, a wire and arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) system is proposed, which integrates a cold metal transfer (CMT) welding equipment and a CNC milling machine with three axis.About:
This article is published in Procedia Manufacturing.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 56 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gas metal arc welding & Welding.read more
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Current Status and Perspectives on Wire and Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM)
Tiago A. Rodrigues,Valdemar R. Duarte,Rosa Maria Mendes Miranda,Telmo G. Santos,João Pedro Oliveira +4 more
TL;DR: This review paper aims to provide an overview of the most significant achievements in WAAM, highlighting process developments and variants to control the microstructure, mechanical properties, and defect generation in the as-built parts; the most relevant engineering materials used; the main deposition strategies adopted to minimize residual stresses and the effect of post-processing heat treatments to improve the mechanical properties of the parts.
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A review of wire arc additive manufacturing and advances in wire arc additive manufacturing of aluminium
TL;DR: Although wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) has proven its capability of fulfilling demands of production of medium-to-large-scale components for automotive and allied sectors made up of alumin...
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Wire and arc additive manufacturing : Opportunities and challenges to control the quality and accuracy of manufactured parts
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on process planning including build orientation, slicing, and path planning, as well as the definition of process parameter selection from a single track to multi-track and multilayer, and finally geometric features from a thinwall to lattice structures with several case studies.
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Review on effect of heat input for wire arc additive manufacturing process
Nor Ana Rosli,Mohd Rizal Alkahari,Mohd Fadzli Bin Abdollah,S. Maidin,Faiz Redza Ramli,Safarudin Gazali Herawan +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of heat input on the macrostructure, microstructure and mechanical properties of the parts deposited in the wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) process is discussed.
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A review on wire and arc additive manufacturing of titanium alloy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the 3D metallic printing of titanium alloy by employing wire and arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) as the deposition method, and the economic applicability of applying WAAM on titanium alloys is also discussed.
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TL;DR: The state-of-the-art of additive manufacturing (AM) can be classified into three categories: direct digital manufacturing, free-form fabrication, or 3D printing as discussed by the authors.
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Rapid Manufacturing of Metal Components by Laser Forming
TL;DR: In this article, the main driving force of rapid prototyping or layer manufacturing techniques changed from fabrication of prototypes to rapid tooling (RT) and rapid manufacturing (RM), and nowadays, the direct fabrication of functional or structural end-use products made by layer manufacturing methods, i.e. RM, is the main trend.
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Weld deposition-based rapid prototyping: a preliminary study
TL;DR: In this article, an integrated and user-friendly environment has been developed to slice the part, plan the deposition parameters, and control the deposition process, including travel speed, touch angle, welding current, and arc voltage, to achieve the required density and three-dimensional geometry.
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3D welding and milling: Part I-a direct approach for freeform fabrication of metallic prototypes
TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid approach of 3D welding and milling is proposed, which uses gas metal arc welding as an additive and subtractive technique, thereby exploiting the advantages of both processes.
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Adaptive control of deposited height in GMAW-based layer additive manufacturing
Jun Xiong,Guangjun Zhang +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a passive vision sensor system has been developed to monitor the nozzle to the top surface distance (NTSD) in layer additive manufacturing (LAM) using gas metal arc welding (GMAW).