A practical path planning methodology for wire and arc additive manufacturing of thin-walled structures

By Donghong Ding, Zengxi Pan, Dominic Cuiuri, Huijun Li. 2015

329 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/915ee576dc289a68203b583c93ffcf07e808c0fe

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In Automotive Engineering

1. Telmo G. Santos
2. J. P. Oliveira
3. Huijun Li
4. Zengxi Pan
5. R. Miranda
6. Dominic Cuiuri
7. Donghong Ding
8. Volker Wesling

In Control and Systems Engineering

1. Huijun Li
2. Dominic Cuiuri
3. Zengxi Pan
4. Donghong Ding
5. Lei Li
6. Krishnan Suresh
7. Lin Cheng
8. Zhan Kang

In Mechanical Engineering

1. J. P. Oliveira
2. Telmo G. Santos
3. R. Miranda
4. Volker Wesling
5. Kai Treutler
6. Huijun Li
7. Zengxi Pan
8. Donghong Ding

Citations in the corpus

• Current and future trends in topology optimization for additive manufacturing (2018, methodology): “Various tool path patterns have been applied to AM (Ding et al. 2015), including the zig-zag, contour-offset, hybrid, and medial axis-based, and each alternative has its unique characteristic from the perspective of manufacturing efficiency and quality.”
• Arc Welding Processes for Additive Manufacturing: A Review (2018, background): “2 mm) and surface finish of the fabricated part are unacceptable for many applications [1]; (3) Solid layers cannot be filled to form a smooth surface, resulting in inner gaps or voids [6]; (4) Automated CAD-to-part AM system using arc welding processes is immature [7]; (5) Lack of”
• Bead modelling and implementation of adaptive MAT path in wire and arc additive manufacturing (2016, methodology): “This paper, based on previous path planning work [19,20] and the overlapping bead model [21], makes a further step of adaptive MAT path planning.”
• Current Status and Perspectives on Wire and Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) (2019, methodology): “Schematic representation of the adaptive medial axis transformation planning method (adapted from [109]).”
• Wire-feed additive manufacturing of metal components: technologies, developments and future interests (2015, methodology): “Several research groups have investigated the WAAM process using of gas metal arc welding (GMAW), gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) or plasma arc welding (PAW) as a heat source, as summarised in Table 4 [4, 26, 55–78].”
• The Current State of Research of Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM): A Review (2021, background): “proposed path planning based on medial axis transformations, with good results for a fully filled part without a significant amount of defects [150].”