Additive / Process Development / Control
The projects that fall under this thrust area have an emphasis on additive / process development / control.
About Our Additive/Process Development/Control-Focused Projects
Promote innovation and development in additive manufacturing and joining processes. Areas of interest and focus: Metal additive manufacturing, brazing, advanced arc welding, solid-state joining, sensors, process monitoring and control, and the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve these processes.
Thrust Committee Chair:Andrzej Nycz ORNL (UTK mentor) Stephen Tate EPRI (OSU, CSM, UTK mentor) Foss Jiao, Huys Industries
Thrust Committee Co-Chair: Bill Hamel, UTK
Projects:
- Adaptive Welding for Power Plant Piping and Pressure Vessels (AW-PPV)
- Advanced Microstructure Control in the Directed Energy Deposition Process
- Al-based Metal Matrix Composite Tublar Wires for Additive Manufacturing Deposition
- Anviloy Die Hardfacing Development for Aluminum Die Casting Heat Checking Resistance
- Computer Aided Robotics for Welding, Cladding & Additive Manufacturing Large Structures
- Corrosion Resistant Weld Overlays for Pipelines, Oil and Gas, and Petrochemical Installations
- Development of Interlayer Technology to Join Advanced Materials for the Transportation Industry
- Evaluation of Advanced Pulsed Waveforms On Arc Welding Efficiency
- High Melting Rate Tandem GMA Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Materials
- ICWE Predictive Tools for FSW – from Process to Performance
- Innovative Fabrication and Repair of Aerospace Invar Molds using Large Scale Additive Metals Manufacturing Methods
- Integrated Modeling Framework for Automotive Multi-process Joining
- Large-Scale Additive Metals Manufacturing using Non-Gravity Aligned GMAW (LSAMM – NGA)
- Process Modeling of Mash Seam Welding
- Processing-Microstructure-Performance Relation of Additively Manufactured High Gamma Prime Nickel Superalloy
- Repair of Additive Manufactured Products by Electro-Spark Deposition
- Role of Beam Manipulation on Enhancing Keyhole Stability and Producing Defect-Free Laser Welds in Aluminum Alloys
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