What happens at the interface between WAAM aluminium and wrought plates?
Academia working closely with Industry to mature the Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing process
Targeting process qualification and full industrial adoption of a processing technique, which is revolutionising the world of manufacturing
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AT THE FOREFRONT
Fostering innovative ideas at low Technology Readiness Levels, taking them all the way up to industrial maturity
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INDUSTRY ORIENTED
With over 10 industry partners, our research efforts are scientifically ambitious but focussed on the users' requirements
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WE ARE GLOBAL
WAAMMat is a large consortium in which companies from Europe, America and Asia alike are working harmoniously
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THE RIGHT PEOPLE
Academia and industry leaders working together with one common target
FIND A PROJECT
Projects of the day
A daily selection from our 63 projects.
Aluminium - Mixed wire study
Creating alloys in-situ
Aluminium development (part 2) including demo parts
Developing WAAM of aluminium further
Alternate peening strategies
What other ways are there to perform peening, besides laser? Can pneumatic hammering be used as well?
- 63 RUNNING PROJECTS
- 2663116 PROJECTS VALUE in GBP
- 27 TEAM MEMBERS
- 22 PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS
Latest blog posts
News and announcements from the WAAMMat team.
NATO - Defence Innovation Challenge award given to Cranfield University
For our PhD "Modelling Applications of Additive Manufacturing in Defence Support Services" carried out by Alessandro Busachi and sponsored by Babcock International Group
Some machining, finally!
Unless you knew this is AM, you wouldn't guess, would you?
IMechE Event - ‘WAAM’ Lecture and Lab Tour 15th February 2017
Places still available
Demo series: WAAM of a wind tunnel model
From CFD to CAD to testing, within a week
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What They Say About WAAM
Designed by BAE Systems engineers, the component forms a main structural element of an aircraft wing structure. It took just 37 hours to build from a digital model. Previously this process would have taken weeks.
What we’ve been able to demonstrate from this project is that we have the ability to manufacture titanium parts on this scale. The next stage is to continue working together to produce more parts and to develop a robust set of processes so that we can take this technology and apply it safely and seamlessly into the aerospace industry
This is an exciting technology with huge potential for the aerospace industry
Why WAAMMat?
Filling the knowledge gaps to understand material properties, design possibilities, and process capability
Taking the hardware traditionally used in arc welding to the next level of ruggedisation, reliability, control, and integration; integrating it with cutting-edge technologies based on light, magnetic, sound physics
The worlds of academia and industry joining forces to fast-track the maturation of the process whether relying on private efforts as well as publicly-funded projects, making sure nothing is repeated unnecessarily.
