Most of the metal additive manufacturing technologies are focused on high cost and high end applications. There is in need, a low cost additive manufacturing technology suitable for low and high end metallic applications. Robotic automated welding can be considered as an alternative to manufactured large scale metal parts with layer by layer approach. However, many obstacles have to be overcome...

This paper deals with the investigation of the microstructure and hardness of steel samples cladded with satellite 6-WC composites by using gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) process. For this purpose, steel samples were coated with unreinforced and reinforced stellite (by 20, 30 and 40 wt.% WC). The cladded samples were evaluated by metallographic studies, microhardness measurement and X-ray diff...

Gas tungsten metal arc welding (GTAW) is used to study the effect of base thickness, current and speed on tensile strength hardness mild steel welding. The analysis found that thickness had highest means Taguchi’s design (TD) suggested using higher lower when in order obtain maximum hardness. has showed However, increased proportionally with internal stresses wider heat affected zone (HAZ) incr...

J. Tušek, A. Skumavc, D. Klobčar, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia K. Pompe, TKC-Technology Consulting Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia This paper presents the use of two welding processes for the refurbishment of damaged industrial tools. In the first part the problem is presented followed by the comparison of GTAW and laser welding in terms of repair ...

In the present work, structure health monitoring (SHM) of welded steel pipes was used to diagnosis their state via vibration based damage detection techniques. The dynamic quantities such as Frequency Response Functions (FRFs), mode shapes and modal parameters from structural vibration to detect damage were measured, set on linear averaging mode, with a maximum frequency of analysis of 3.2 kHz....