An Introduction to Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing: Fundamentals, Processing, and Applications
暫譯: 線弧增材製造入門：基本原理、處理與應用

本書涵蓋了電弧焊接增材製造過程的基本原理和處理程序，包括開發近淨形狀元件及其應用。進一步探討了鈦、鋁、鎳基合金、不銹鋼、銅、青銅和鐵基合金的電弧焊接增材製造，並附有案例研究和插圖。書中解釋了電弧焊接增材製造元件的冶金和機械特性。

- 概述了定向能量沉積過程和電弧焊接增材製造過程的基本原理。
- 討論了創建大規模元件的最成功增材製造過程。
- 提供了電弧焊接增材製造與其他增材製造過程在各種材料之間的生產力比較。
- 討論了固化過程、熱梯度和微觀結構特徵。
- 包含實時案例研究和大量插圖。

本書旨在為製造和材料科學工程、焊接及增材製造領域的研究人員和研究生提供參考。

Dr. Murali Mohan Cheepu, born in 1988, received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical and Production Engineering from Andhra University (GITAM College) in Visakhapatnam, India. He earned his Master's degree in Welding Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NITT) in India. In 2018, he was awarded his Doctoral degree from Kyungsung University in Republic of Korea. He also carried out his Post-octoral research at Pukyong National University, Korea in 2019. In 2011, Dr. Murali was appointed as a Junior Manager at JSW Steel Ltd., where he oversaw the fabrication and maintenance of structural welding, overlay welding, and WAAM (Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing) components. Dr. Murali is currently serving as the Deputy General Manager of the Research and Technical Division at JIN HEUNG TECH CO., LTD. Republic of Korea. Prior to this, he worked as a Research and Project Manager at VITZRONEXTECH Co., Ltd., Republic of Korea and Research Manager at STARWELDS Inc. Republic of Korea. He has several years of industry experience, most notably at JSW STEEL Ltd. and STARWELDS, Inc. as a Research Manager specializing in the development of WAAM processes for large-cale components, welding process design, automation, digitalization, and artificial intelligence. Dr. Murali has extensive research experience in additive manufacturing, welding and joining technologies, development of welding filler materials, mechanical behavior materials, and machine learning and AI of the WAAM process. Most recently, he started working for the development of welding methods for the construction of "Artificial Sun: Future Energy: Fusion & Plasma". He has published research articles, edited books, and patents on Advances in Additive Manufacturing Processes and Automation in Welding Technologies, Green Technology, and Smart Materials for Engineering Applications, and continues to serve as the editorial board member of several journals. In 2023, Dr. Murali was honored with several prestigious awards, including the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer from Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), USA, and the Young Fellow Award from the Korean Welding and Joining Society (KWJS), Republic of Korea. In addition, he received the Best Researcher Award from the KWJS in 2020. Additionally, Dr. Murali received the Outstanding Contributor Award from the Korean Society for Precision Engineering (KSPE), Korea, and the Outstanding Citations Award from KWJS. This recognition was further elevated in 2024 with the "A. F. Davis Silver Medal Award" from the American Welding Society, USA, and in 2025 with the "IAAM Scientist Award" from the International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden, highlighting Dr. Murali's significant contributions and achievements in the field. Dr. Murali is an IEEE senior member and a member of Korean Welding and Joining Society (KWJS), Hong Kong Society of Mechanical Engineers (HKSME), American Welding Society (AWS), Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME), and Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

Dr. Katakam Sivaprasad was born in 1977. He completed his Diploma in Metallurgical Engineering at Government Polytechnic, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. Later, he completed his AMIIM (Under Graduation) and moved to the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India to complete his M.Tech. (2002) and Ph.D. (2007) in Metallurgical Engineering. He took his professional career in 2007 at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. He served in administrative roles like Associate Dean (Research & Consultancy) at NIT. Presently, he is working there only as a Professor (Full). His major activities at NIT are teaching and research related to mechanical behavior of materials, structure-property-process correlations, additive manufacturing, and materials characterization. His major research activities are on cryo-deformation of materials, metal-intermetallic laminates for defense applications, deformation of nanocrystalline materials, and additive manufacturing. He has published more than 110 research articles in refereed international journals and presented his work in more than 50 conferences. He edited few special issues in SCOPUS and SCIE journals. He has contributed to few book chapters in refereed edited books. He has guided 13 doctoral candidates and more than 50 Master's candidates at NIT. He completed many sponsored and consultancy research activities with various funding agencies such as Department of Science and Technology (India) (DST), Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE), Defence Research and Development Organisation (India) (DRDO), Naval Research Board (under DRDO, India) (NRB), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and Tata Steel. He organized several international and national conferences related to advanced materials and additive manufacturing. He has a very strong international collaboration from various countries such as USA, UK, Japan, Estonia, and Singapore, and he was a visiting scientist to the USA and Japan. He is the first recipient of Sir Dorabji Tata and T R Anantharaman faculty fellowship in 2014 and received many best paper awards in many conferences. He is on many international research review panels across the globe. He is a senior member of Society of Manufacturing Engineers -Hong Kong (SMEHK) and also a life member of Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), Indian Welding Society (IWS), Materials Research Society of India (MRSI), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Powder Metallurgy Association of India (PMAI), and Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA).

穆拉利·莫漢·切普博士（Dr. Murali Mohan Cheepu），1988年出生，於印度維沙卡帕特南的安得拉大學（GITAM College）獲得機械與生產工程學士學位。他在印度的提魯吉拉帕利國立技術學院（NITT）獲得焊接工程碩士學位。2018年，他在韓國慶尚大學獲得博士學位。2019年，他在韓國釜慶國立大學進行了博士後研究。2011年，穆拉利博士被任命為JSW Steel Ltd.的初級經理，負責結構焊接、覆蓋焊接和WAAM（線弧增材製造）元件的製造和維護。穆拉利博士目前擔任韓國金興科技有限公司（JIN HEUNG TECH CO., LTD.）研究與技術部的副總經理。在此之前，他曾在韓國VITZRONEXTECH有限公司擔任研究與項目經理，以及在韓國STARWELDS公司擔任研究經理。他在行業中擁有多年經驗，尤其是在JSW STEEL Ltd.和STARWELDS, Inc.擔任研究經理，專注於大型元件的WAAM工藝開發、焊接工藝設計、自動化、數位化和人工智慧。穆拉利博士在增材製造、焊接與連接技術、焊接填充材料的開發、材料的機械行為以及WAAM工藝的機器學習和人工智慧方面擁有豐富的研究經驗。最近，他開始致力於「人造太陽：未來能源：融合與等離子體」的焊接方法開發。他已發表有關增材製造工藝和焊接技術自動化、綠色技術和工程應用智能材料的研究文章、編輯書籍和專利，並持續擔任多本期刊的編輯委員會成員。2023年，穆拉利博士獲得多項榮譽獎項，包括美國製造工程師學會（SME）頒發的傑出青年製造工程師獎，以及韓國焊接與連接學會（KWJS）頒發的青年研究員獎。此外，他在2020年獲得KWJS的最佳研究者獎。穆拉利博士還獲得了韓國精密工程學會（KSPE）頒發的傑出貢獻獎，以及KWJS的傑出引用獎。這一認可在2024年進一步提升，獲得美國焊接學會（AWS）頒發的「A. F. Davis銀獎」，並在2025年獲得瑞典國際先進材料協會（IAAM）頒發的「IAAM科學家獎」，突顯了穆拉利博士在該領域的重要貢獻和成就。穆拉利博士是IEEE的高級會員，並且是韓國焊接與連接學會（KWJS）、香港機械工程師學會（HKSME）、美國焊接學會（AWS）、韓國機械工程師學會（KSME）和製造工程師學會（SME）的成員。

卡塔卡姆·西瓦普拉薩德博士（Dr. Katakam Sivaprasad）於1977年出生。他在印度安得拉邦維沙卡帕特南的政府理工學院完成了冶金工程文憑。隨後，他完成了AMIIM（本科）並前往印度馬德拉斯印度理工學院（IIT Madras）完成冶金工程的碩士（M.Tech.，2002年）和博士（Ph.D.，2007年）學位。他於2007年在印度提魯吉拉帕利的國立技術學院（NIT）擔任冶金與材料工程系的助理教授。他在NIT擔任過副院長（研究與諮詢）等行政職位。目前，他僅以教授（正教授）身份在該校工作。他在NIT的主要工作是教授和研究與材料的機械行為、結構-性質-工藝關聯、增材製造和材料表徵相關的內容。他的主要研究活動包括材料的低溫變形、用於國防應用的金屬-金屬間化合物層壓材料、納米晶材料的變形和增材製造。他在國際期刊上發表了超過110篇研究文章，並在50多個會議上展示了他的工作。他編輯了幾本SCOPUS和SCIE期刊的特刊，並為幾本經過審核的編輯書籍貢獻了幾個章節。他指導了13名博士候選人和50多名碩士候選人。他完成了許多與各種資助機構（如印度科學技術部（DST）、高等教育部（MoHE）、印度國防研究與發展組織（DRDO）、海軍研究委員會（NRB）、印度空間研究組織（ISRO）和塔塔鋼鐵）合作的贊助和諮詢研究活動。他組織了幾個與先進材料和增材製造相關的國際和國內會議。他與來自美國、英國、日本、愛沙尼亞和新加坡等多個國家的研究機構有著非常強的國際合作，並曾作為訪問科學家前往美國和日本。他是2014年首位獲得Sir Dorabji Tata和T R Anantharaman教職獎學金的受獎者，並在多個會議上獲得了最佳論文獎。他在全球多個國際研究評審小組中任職。他是香港製造工程師學會（SMEHK）的高級會員，並且是印度金屬學會（IIM）、印度焊接學會（IWS）、印度材料研究學會（MRSI）、印度技術教育學會（ISTE）、印度粉末冶金協會（PMAI）和印度科學大會（ISCA）的終身會員。