Project name: Hybrid manufacturing combining Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing and metal forming
Project code: HyWAAM
Project timeline: 2025 - 2026
Research group: Manufacturing and Industrial Management
Objective
This project is built around two scientific and technological objectives with significant impact on the customization and lightweight fabrication of complex products: (i) exploration of new ideas and development of innovative concepts for the hybridization of WAAM with metal forming throughout the different stages of a manufacturing route (the so-called ?strong interaction between WAAM and metal forming?), and (ii) extension of the applicability domain of an in-house finite element software to material deposition by WAAM along complex three-dimensional paths, ensuring its capability to model the hybridization of WAAM with metal forming
Project team
Publications
Maria R.F. Barros, PedroRosado, Rui F.V. Sampaio, João P. M. Pragana, I. M. F. Bragança, C.M.Alves Silva, P.A.F. Martins, Exploring the hybridization of wire-arc additive manufacturing and resistance spot welding, Journal of Advanced Joining Processes, 12, 100354, 2025
João M.A. Viegas, PedroRosado, Rui F.V. Sampaio, João P. M. Pragana, I. M. F. Bragança, C.M.Alves Silva, P.A.F. Martins, Modelling wire-arc-additive manufacturing for joining by forming applications, 44th Conference of the International Deep Drawing Research Group (IDDRG 2025), Lisboa, Portugal, May, 2025
Francisco Martinha Vieira da Graça, Hybrid metal additive manufacturing with forming operations: an economic and environmental analysis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Dec, 2025
João Miranda Medeiros, Hybridization of Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing and Single Point Incremental Forming for Flexible Part Production, Instituto Superior Técnico, Jul, 2025
Manuel António Cabral Matos, Fabrication of fully dense WAAM parts with conformal cooling channels for molding tools, Instituto Superior Técnico, Dec, 2025
João M.A. Viegas, PedroRosado, Rui F.V. Sampaio, João P. M. Pragana, I. M. F. Bragança, Sofia F. Filipe, C.M.Alves Silva, P.A.F. Martins, Towards thin-walled construction by arc-based directed energy deposition via adaptive three-axis deposition strategies, 6th Meeting of Young Researchers of LAETA (EJIL 2025), Porto, Portugal, Oct, 2025