Citation:
J. Mehnen, J. Ding, H. Lockett, P. Kazanas. Design for wire and arc additive layer manufacture. Proceedings of the 20th CIRP Design Conference, Nantes, France, 19-21 April, 2010. Ed. A. Bernard
Abstract:
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.
