How can we build structures with more than one material? Can WAAM replace complex cladding operations?
Academia working closely with Industry to mature the Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing process
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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
Plasma hardware development
Development of WAAM-specific hardware
Aluminium development (part 2) including demo parts
Developing WAAM of aluminium further
Effect of ambient oxygen on Ti properties
Investigating the effect of different oxygen concentrations in the deposition atmosphere
- 63 RUNNING PROJECTS
- 2663116 PROJECTS VALUE in GBP
- 31 TEAM MEMBERS
- 27 PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS
Latest blog posts
WAAMmat Industry Day 2021
23 November 2021 - Online event - The Welding Engineering and Laser Processing Centre at Cranfield University organised one more successful WAAMmat Industry Day.
Demonstration of double-side deposition
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What They Say About WAAM
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.