The wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) technology is a promising fabrication technique which has been proven to have many advantages for producing large structures; however, the fatigue and corrosion-fatigue performance ...

Al-Cu alloy has broad application prospects in the field of aerospace due to its excellent performance. In this paper, deposits with different Cu contents were prepared by the wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) process, ...

The new emerging Wire and Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) technology has significant potential to improve material design and efficiency for structural components as well as reducing manufacturing costs. Due to repeated ...

The Innovative Aluminium filler Wires for Aircraft Structures (IAWAS) project aimed to demonstrate the potential of Wire Arc Additive Manufacture (WAAM) for the production of aluminium lithium components. Preliminary testing ...

Components manufactured via Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing are usually characterised by large columnar grains. This can be mitigated by introducing in-process cold rolling; in fact, the associated local plastic deformation ...

Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) has become a crucial asset for industrial manufacturing in the field of medium to large metallic deposition thanks to its high-rate deposition of various metals, its low-cost ...

Tungsten is considered as one of the most promising materials for nuclear fusion reactor chamber applications. Wire + Arc Additive Manufacture has already demonstrated the ability to deposit defect-free large-scale tungsten ...

Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) has proven its capability to build medium to large metallic parts thanks to its high-rate deposition and its potentially unlimited build volume. Moreover, the low-cost equipment and ...

WAAM (wire-and-arc additive manufacturing) is recently gaining much interest for the fabrication of parts with wide size. A crucial issue associated to this technology is how to control the process variables to achieve ...

Automatic and flexible geometry measurement of the weld pool surface can help better understand the complex welding processes and even provide feedback to better control this process. Most of existing imaging systems use ...