About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2022 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (SFF Symp 2022)
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Symposium
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2022 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (SFF Symp 2022)
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Presentation Title |
Creating Large-scale Metal Parts with Multi-arm High Deposition Wire-arc System |
Author(s) |
Andrzej Nycz, Chris Masuo, Luke Meyer, Alex Walters, Derek Vaughan, William Carter, Riley Wallace, peter Wang, Mark Noakes, Joshua Vaughan |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Andrzej Nycz |
Abstract Scope |
Wire-arc additive technology is gaining popularity due its low cost and well understood welding-based methodology. A lot of effort is focused on increasing already relatively high deposition rate. ORNL developed a new type of multi-arm multi-head technology system called Medusa. By using many coordinated print heads, the deposition rate can be increased without investment in new types on deposition torches. In addition, system reliability and quality of the prints can be increased. In this work the lessons learned on several different large builds will be presented as well as future directions for the technology. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Definite: Post-meeting proceedings |