Characterisation of the cold metal transfer (CMT) process and its application for low dilution cladding

By C. Pickin, Stewart W. Williams, M. Lunt. 2011

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Welding processes for wear resistant overlays (2014, methodology): “The development of inverter GMAW power supplies with advanced waveform manipulation has allowed GMAW to clad corrosion resistant overlays with low dilution [77,78].”
Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing of Stainless Steels: A Review (2020, unknown): “To surpass the limitations, cold metal transfer welding (CMT) [57–59] can be adopted to achieve a very smooth droplet detachment by minimizing the arc burn time and moving the wire electrode back and forth at frequencies up to 150 Hz [60,61].”
Wire and arc additive manufacturing: Opportunities and challenges to control the quality and accuracy of manufactured parts (2021, background): “Cold metal transfer welding (CMT) can be applied for the purpose of overcoming these constraints by reducing arc burns time and reversing the wire electrode back and forth [51,52].”
Cold metal transfer (CMT) technology - An overview (2017, unknown): “The wire feed rate and the cycle arcing phase are controlled to realise suf ﬁ cient energy to melt both the base material and a globule of ﬁ ller wire [4].”
A review of wire arc additive manufacturing and advances in wire arc additive manufacturing of aluminium (2018, background): “On account of less possibility of warpage and burnthrough, CMT has been satisfactorily implemented for welding of aluminium sheets [93] and for low dilution cladding of aluminium alloys [94,95] and nickel-based superalloys [96].”