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    Design for wire and arc additive layer manufacture
    (2010-04-19T00:00:00Z) Mehnen, Jorn; Ding, J.; Lockett, Helen L.; Kazanas, P.; Bernard, A.
    Additive Layer Manufacture (ALM) is a technique whereby freeform structures are produced by building up material in layers. RUAM (Ready-to-Use Additive Layer Manufacturing) is an innovative concept for building large scale metal ready-to- use parts. The design for RUAM has several process steps: the geometric design of the parts taking the complex process behaviour of the arc welding process into account; FEM to predict temperature and stress distributions to minimise part distortions; and efficient robot tool path design. This paper covers these essential design steps from a technical as well as practical point of view.