A Comparative Study of Two WAAM Patterns for Structures with Grid Fin Characteristics.

As a critical component of rocket systems, the grid fin is widely applied in the aerospace industry. Compared to traditional manufacturing methods and other additive manufacturing (AM) techniques, wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) is more advantageous in its time and cost efficiency, especially when it is utilized in the large-scale production of components. Given the significant effect of the welding strategies on the quality of manufactured parts, we investigated two distinct WAAM printing orientations, horizontal, or lie (L), and perpendicular, or stand (S), using a small-scale model.

Dataset on sinusoidally stiffened 3D printed steel plated structures.

The paper reports a series of experimental and numerical data of destructive stub column tests on additively manufactured steel parts stiffened by surface sinusoidal wave patterns. The specimens were made in 316L stainless steel and manufactured by selective laser melting (SLM). The experimental tests covered five tensile coupon tests, fourteen square hollow section (SHS) stub column tests and measurements of geometric imperfections of the stub columns.