Abstract Robotic Wire and Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) is an ideal process for
manufacturing large-scale or large-format parts efficiently and economically, as compared …

Optimum process parameter window for recently developed metal powders used for laser
powder bed fusion (LPBF) is strongly correlated with characteristics of each single track and …

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) were used for the semantic segmentation of angular
monocrystalline WC from NiCrBSi-WC optical microscopy images. This deep learning …

Twin-electrode gas tungsten arc–based additive manufacturing (GTA-AM) is a developing
wire and arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) method. The bead geometries of twin …

NiCrBSi-based composites are immensely in demand to replace hard chrome coating for
wear, corrosion-resistant applications and necessary to scale up the production. In the …

Plasma transferred arc additive manufacturing (PTA-AM) is a high volume and high speed
directed energy deposition (DED) technique that uses metal powder as a feedstock material …

In the search for versatile and effective weld cladding processes to deposit ultra-wear-
resistant Ni-WC MMC (Ni-based tungsten carbide metal matrix composite) overlays for …

Plasma transferred arc additive manufacturing (PTA-AM) was used to deposit a cylinder
composed of 70wt pct WC-NiBSi metal matrix composites. Two defects dominated the …

This paper compares the processing characteristics of advanced CMT (cold metal transfer)
and conventional GMAW-S (gas metal arc welding with short-circuit metal transfer) …

Plasma transferred arc additive manufacturing (PTA-AM) was used to deposit 60 wt.%, 70
wt.%, and 80 wt.% WC-NiCrBSi metal matrix composites. The 60 wt.% samples had a …