Smart Manufacturing Platform for Hybrid TWAAM
A KUKA robot-based platform for the hybrid TWAAM process, instrumented with monitoring and IR cameras, a microphone and a DAQ system.
Exploring the frontiers of welding technology and additive manufacturing.
A KUKA robot-based platform for the hybrid TWAAM process, instrumented with monitoring and IR cameras, a microphone and a DAQ system.
Understanding how the welding arc behaves during wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM).
Estimating residual stresses in parts made by selective laser melting (SLM), through experiments and numerical modelling.
Narrow-gap GMAW for thick-plate applications, studied through experiments, numerical modelling and digital image correlation of local strains.
Dissimilar joining of steel and aluminium sheets with the cold wire GTAW process: the effect of AC waveforms and torch oscillations, with analytical and numerical models.
Two-wire tandem submerged arc welding for submarine hull fabrication, investigated experimentally and through heat-transfer and fluid-flow models.