
High Value Manufacturing – Bártolo et al. (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00137-4
Evaluation of Shaped Metal Deposition (SMD) for applications
in the energy industry
U. Woy, S. Jones, R. Gault & K. Ridgway
The University of Sheffield, Nuclear AMRC, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, UK
R. McCluskey
Rolls-Royce Power Engineering plc, Derby, UK
ABSTRACT: Shaped Metal Deposition (SMD) is a wire-based Additive Manufacturing (AM) process, capable
of producingnear-net shaped components.Inthis paper,an evaluation of theSMDprocess for manufacturing large
components for industrial applications is presented. The aim is to improve the manufacturability ...