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Energy Consumption of Welding-Based Additively Manufactured Materials

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Advances in Additive Manufacturing and Joining

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The objective of this study is to determine a detailed energy model for Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW), Manual Metal Arc Welding (MMAW) processes and comparing energy consumptions of both techniques for additively manufactured rectangular blocks. Energy consumption as function of time and power calculated for Mild steel- MS-ER70, MS-E6013, stainless steel SS-ER347, SS-E308L-16, AlSi-3 ER4043 rectangular solids manufactured by welding-based additive manufacturing. Qualitatively it is known that GMAW takes less energy comparing MMAW process. However, tools and dataset to quantitatively determine energy consumption of each step of GMAW, MMAW additively manufactured materials has been missing. Energy consumption is divided for pre-processing, WAAM process, post-processing. Even each of this process demanded energy input also traced. Comparisons of both energy values with carbon foot print and considerable parameters are discussed in detail.

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Abbreviations

AM:

Additive Manufacturing

SLA:

Stereolithography

FDM:

Fused Deposition Modeling

EBM:

Electron Beam Melting

DMLS:

Direct Metal Laser Sintering

LENS:

Laser Engineered Net Shaping

PBF:

Powder Bed Fusion

DED:

Direct Energy Deposition

WAAM:

Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing

GTAW/TIG:

Tungsten Inert Gas welding

MMAW:

Manual Metal Arc Welding

GMAW/MIG:

Gas Metal Arc Welding

TGMAW:

Tandem Gas Metal Arc Welding

FSW:

Friction Stir Welding

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Acknowledgement

Author would like to thank Senior Technician Mr. Muthurajan and his team, Mr. Rajesh for their timely support during experiments at Central workshop, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

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  1. Digital Manufacturing and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, 487372, Singapore

    Nandhini Raju

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, Jammu, 181221, India

    G. Balaganesan

  3. Department of Engineering Design, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600036, India

    Gurunathan Saravana Kumar

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  1. Manufacturing Engineering Section, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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  2. Department of Manufacturing Engineering, College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    M. Kanthababu

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Raju, N., Balaganesan, G., Saravana Kumar, G. (2020). Energy Consumption of Welding-Based Additively Manufactured Materials. In: Shunmugam, M., Kanthababu, M. (eds) Advances in Additive Manufacturing and Joining. Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9433-2_11

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