On the 14th and 15th of June, the industry members of the WAAMMat consortium will convene at Cranfield University for the annual Industry Day. This year the event will mark a special occasion: the celebration of the tenth anniversary of research on the Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing process under the guidance of Prof Stewart Williams. Due to the size and complexity achieved by the research programme, the event will run over two days rather than the usual one. Moreover, while the dissemination event used to be open to the general public, from this edition onwards it will be reserved to WAAMMat members only.
The agenda is as follows:
DAY 1
09:30 Registration, tea, coffee
10:00 10 years of WAAM history, programme update
10:40 Latest titanium mechanical properties
11:00 Microstructural characterisation of Ti
11:20 High deposition rate AM
11:40 BREAK
12:00 HiVE development, rolling, shielding, part building
12:30 Alternative cold work methods
13:00 Out of position deposition
13:20 LUNCH
14:00 WAAMsoft
14:30 Cost and design studies
15:00 Photonics sensors for WAAM
15:20 On-line grain size measurements
15:40 BREAK
15:50 Managing thermal effects
16:20 Deposition of maraging steel
16:40 Deposition of refractories
17:10 Lab tours
DAY 2
09:30 Latest parts built
10:00 High strength aluminium
10:20 Deposit/plate interface studies in aluminium
10:40 AC/DC deposition of aluminium
11:00 BREAK
11:10 Deposition of inconel
11:30 Deposition of stainless
11:50 New multi robot system development and plans
12:10 Use of WAAMMat website
12:30 LUNCH
13:10 Future programme development, new projects, new partners (industrial, academic, and commercial), commerialisation plans, qualification of WAAM
13:55 Open discussion for partners
