Additive manufacturing technologies based on melting and solidification have considerable
similarities with fusion-based welding technologies, either by electric arc or high-power …

Vibration assisted welding (VAW) has emerged as a successful replacement for heat
treatments and post-weld vibration treatments of arc welds to reduce residual stresses and …

One of the less desirable aspects of fusion-based additive manufacturing is the propensity
for coarse columnar grain structures crossing build layers to form. This paper initially …

Laser oscillating welding was employed to join 4 mm-thick AA6061-T6 aluminum alloy in
butt configuration. Three beam oscillating patterns that are transversal, longitudinal and …

Grain refining is known to improve the solidification-cracking resistance and mechanical
properties of welds. Mg alloys are increasingly used for vehicle weight reduction. The …

Circular oscillating laser was used to deposit GH3536 nickel-based superalloy, GH3536-16
wt.% coarse WC and GH3536-16 wt.% fine WC composite. The microstructure …

Local microstructure control in electron beam powder bed fusion (EB-PBF) is of great
interest to the additive manufacturing community to realize complex part geometry with …

A novel external axial magnetic field (EMF) hybrid CMT welding-brazing process was
adopted to join pure titanium TA2 and aluminum alloy 6061-T6. The effects of the magnetic …

Abstract Flexible Ring Mode (FRM) laser welding is a relatively new composite laser
welding technology. The present study focused on the FRM laser welded joints produced …

External magnetic field (EMF) is favored for application in welding, due to their positive
effects on joint quality. This paper studies the effects of EMF on cold metal transfer welds of …