The CMT technology is adopted to directly fabricate thin-walled parts and the process parameters are optimi-ed to overcome the shortcomings of complex procedure and uneven performance or low accuracy of the fabricated part in the traditional manufacturing process. Thin-walled parts are taken as research objects to establish a 3D response surface model with the wire feed speed and the ratio of wire feed speed to welding gun travel speed as input variables
and the layer width and the ratio of layer width to height as output variables to predict the geometry features of the parts. The effects of the arc length and the gun travel angle on deposition procedure and finally formed shape are studied. The behaviour and characteristics of the transfer are analy-ed by using a high speed camera
and the action mechanisms of the process parameters on formed shape are described. Experimental results show that the accuracy of the geometric feature prediction model is higher and its prediction error
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