TOPICS:

• Advanced arc welding technologies including twin-arc and tandem processes
• Laser beam and hybrid welding technologies & applications
• Wire-feed or powder electron beam welding
• Flux cored wire and seamless flux cored wire technologies and their use
• All metal alloys welding, testing and analysis of their welds
• Industrial applications, inspections and tests
• Surface modification of additive manufacturing parts
• High strength and armoured steel welds, their properties (incl. ballistic properties)
• Underwater and wet welding technologies and their consumables
• Design and simulation aspects of the metal additive manufacturing (MAM) materials
• Testing of MAM materials, distortion prevention and residual stresses of MAM parts
• Fatigue and fracture toughness aspects of MAM and bi-metallic WAAM parts
• Programming and software developments in robotic MAM & WAAM applications
• Predictive theoretical and computational approaches for additive manufacturing
• Testing, NDT methods and defect assessment of MAM & WAAM parts
• Developments on Education-Training-Certification of welding and MAM & WAAM personnel

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND PUBLICATIONS

• All presented papers will be published in a WAM 2024 Proceedings in digital form.
• Selected papers will be published as a “WAM 2024 Special Issue” of the Journal of the IIW “Welding in the World” after peer review process.
• Manuscripts of max. 15 pages (A4) will be requested before 01 Nov. 2024.

SPEAKERS