WAAM Gear Tooth — Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing
A near-net-shape gear tooth grown layer by layer with wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAAM). A high-speed view of the arc, the deposition, and the melt pool that in-situ thermal monitoring tracks to keep every layer consistent.
Wire-arc additive manufacturing builds metal parts bead on bead, so heat accumulates with every pass. Too much heat and the geometry slumps; too little and layers fuse poorly. Watching the melt pool and reading layer temperature in real time is how WAAM stays dimensionally stable — exactly what in-situ thermal monitoring is built to do.
What you see
- A gear tooth deposited near-net-shape, layer by layer.
- Arc, wire feed, and melt pool during wire-arc additive deposition.
- The heat build-up between passes that drives WAAM quality.
- Why interpass temperature control matters for geometry and microstructure.
Monitor it with Therness
- HeatCam thermal sensors read layer and interpass temperature live.
- HeatCore AI flags overheating and process drift before a layer fails.
- Layer-by-layer thermal records build QA evidence for every part.
- Works on carbon steel, titanium, and nickel WAAM builds.
