Advanced Manufacturing and Characterization of Titanium Alloys via Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing for Structural Applications

Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) is one of the trending additive manufacturing techniques of Industry 4.0, which is an efficient and economical choice for producing large-scale metallic products. WAAM technology has high dimensional efficiency, a high deposition rate, and low postoperative costs, promoting such a process to be suitable for several industrial sectors such as automotive, aerospace, marine, and biomedical applications. Titanium (Ti) alloys are valuable functional and structural materials in the oil industry, astronautics, aeronautics, shipbuilding, chemical, and medicine fields owing to their admirable combination properties such as high specific strength, heat, corrosion resistance, and biocompatibility. Though, several problems still resist the fabricating of large-scale titanium products with the conventional manufacturing technique, mostly in consideration of complex geometries, post machinery, and oxidation. Hence, the current project aims to address the current gap in the local manufacturing of Ti/Ti alloys by proposing an alternative manufacturing route as the WAAM process.