Contact Dr Jialuo Ding
Background
Dr. Jialuo Ding is currently a Principal Research Fellow in Additive Manufacturing, in Cranfield University. She got her PhD degree from Cranfield University in 2013. She is leading the research development of the digital aspects of the wire based Direct Energy Deposition Additive Manufacturing process (w-DED AM), including process modelling and simulation, process monitoring and control, and the applications of large-scale DED AM component building. In addition, she is the Research Programme Lead of WAAMMat Programme, which is a rolling research programme aiming at providing industrial solutions based on WAAM process, and is responsible for the delivery of research and industrial projects in the WAAMMat Programme.
Research opportunities
- Process simulation of w-DED AM process, including FEM and CFD based activities
- Process monitoring and control for w-DED AM process
- Digital twin of w-DED AM process
- Industrial applications of w-DED AM process
Current activities
Current projects:- NEWAM project (EPSRC): lead the process modelling research area
- HPWAAM project (Innovate UK): project lead
- MultiFun (EU): co-investigator
- WAAMMat industrial projects, 10+ per year
- Digital twin of wire based Direct Energy Deposition Additive Manufacturing (w-DED AM) process
- Stress & distortion prediction and control for w-DEDAM process
- Fluid flow modelling and process fundamental understandings
- Process monitoring, control and automation
- Novel w-DED AM process and applications
Clients
- Advanced Forming Research Centre
- Airbus
- ARA
- ATI
- BAE Systems
- Boeing UK
- Bombardier Aerospace
- EPSRC
- FMC
- GE Avio
- Innovate UK
- Lockheed Martin UK
- Safran
- Thales
- WAAM3D
- Weir Group
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Wang C, Suder W, Ding J & Williams S (2023) Parametric study of melt pool geometry in hybrid plasma arc-laser melting process for additive manufacturing application, Welding in the World, 67 (4) 923-934. Dataset/s: 10.17862/cranfield.rd.21923409
- Loukas C, Vasilev M, Zimmerman R, Vithanage RK, Mohseni E, MacLeod CN, Lines D, Pierce SG, Williams S, Ding J, Burnham K, Sibson J, O'Hare T & Grosser MR (2023) Transforming industrial manipulators via kinesthetic guidance for automated inspection of complex geometries, Sensors, 23 (7) Article No. 3757.
- Ghafoori E, Dahaghin H, Diao C, Pichler N, Li L, Mohri M, Ding J, Ganguly S & Williams S (2023) Fatigue strengthening of damaged steel members using wire arc additive manufacturing, Engineering Structures, 284 (June) Article No. 115911.
- Syed AK, Plaskitt R, Hill M, Pinter Z, Ding J, Zboray R, Williams S & Zhang X (2023) Strain controlled fatigue behaviour of a wire + arc additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V, International Journal of Fatigue, 171 (June) Article No. 107579. Dataset/s: 10.17862/cranfield.rd.20732050
- Eimer E, Williams S, Ding J, Ganguly S & Chehab B (2023) Mechanical performances of the interface between the substrate and deposited material in aluminium wire Direct Energy Deposition, Materials and Design, 225 (January) Article No. 111594.
- Lu Y, Wang J, Williams S, Zhu L, Ding J, Diao C & Jiang Z (2023) Additive manufacturing of a functionally graded high entropy alloy using a hybrid powder-bed wire-based direct energy deposition approach, Additive Manufacturing, 63 (February) Article No. 103424.
- Gornyakov V, Sun Y, Ding J & Williams S (2022) Modelling and optimising hybrid process of wire arc additive manufacturing and high-pressure rolling, Materials and Design, 223 (November) Article No. 111121. Dataset/s: 10.17862/cranfield.rd.19199765
- Chen X, Wang C, Ding J, Bridgeman P & Williams S (2022) A three-dimensional wire-feeding model for heat and metal transfer, fluid flow, and bead shape in wire plasma arc additive manufacturing, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 83 (November) 300-312.
- Qin J, Wang Y, Ding J & Williams S (2022) Optimal droplet transfer mode maintenance for wire + arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) based on deep learning, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 33 (7) 2179-2191.
- Evans SI, Wang J, Qin J, He Y, Shepherd P & Ding J (2022) A review of WAAM for steel construction – Manufacturing, material and geometric properties, design, and future directions, Structures, 44 (October) 1506-1522.
- Wang C, Sun Y, Chen G, Chen X, Ding J, Suder W, Diao C & Williams S (2022) A simplified modelling approach for thermal behaviour analysis in hybrid plasma arc-laser additive manufacturing, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 195 (October) Article No. 123157.
- Vithanage RKW, Mohseni E, Lines D, Loukas C, Foster E, MacLeod CN, Pierce SG, Gachagan A, Ding J & Williams S (2022) Development of a phased array ultrasound roller probe for inspection of wire + arc additive manufactured components, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 80 (August) 765-774.
- Zimermann R, Mohseni E, Vithanage RKW, Lines D, Foster E, Macleod CN, Pierce SG, Marinelli G, Williams S & Ding J (2022) Increasing the speed of automated ultrasonic inspection of as-built additive manufacturing components by the adoption of virtual source aperture, Materials and Design, 220 (August) Article No. 110822.
- Zimermann R, Mohseni E, Vasilev M, Loukas C, Vithanage RKW, Macleod CN, Lines D, Javadi Y, Espirindio E Silva MP, Fitzpatrick S, Halavage S, Mckegney S, Pierce SG, Williams S & Ding J (2022) Collaborative robotic wire + arc additive manufacture and sensor-enabled in-process ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation, Sensors, 22 (11) Article No. 4203.
- Chen G, Williams S, Ding J, Wang Y & Suder W (2022) Split anode calorimetry for plasma arc energy density measurement with laser calibration, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 78 (June) 71-81. Dataset/s: 10.17862/cranfield.rd.19555225
- Chen G, Williams S, Ding J, Wang C & Suder W (2022) Multi-energy source (MES) configuration for bead shape control in wire-based directed energy deposition (w-DED), Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 304 (June) Article No. 117549. Dataset/s: 10.17862/cranfield.rd.19337438
- Gornyakov V, Ding J, Sun Y & Williams S (2022) Understanding and designing post-build rolling for mitigation of residual stress and distortion in wire arc additively manufactured components, Materials and Design, 213 (January) Article No. 110335. Dataset/s: 10.17862/cranfield.rd.15060285.v1
- Gornyakov V, Sun Y, Ding J & Williams S (2022) Efficient determination and evaluation of steady-state thermal-mechanical variables generated by wire arc additive manufacturing and high pressure rolling, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 30 (1) Article No. 014001. Dataset/s: 10.17862/cranfield.rd.14832180
- Eimer E, Williams S, Ding J, Ganguly S & Chehab B (2021) Effect of substrate alloy type on the microstructure of the substrate and deposited material interface in aluminium wire + arc additive manufacturing, Metals, 11 (June) Article No. 916. Dataset/s: Doi: 10.17862/cranfield.rd.12497006
- Zimermann R, Mohseni E, Lines D, Vithanage RKW, MacLeod CN, Pierce SG, Gachagan A, Javadi Y, Williams S & Ding J (2021) Multi-layer ultrasonic imaging of as-built wire + arc additive manufactured components, Additive Manufacturing, 48, Part A (December) Article No. 102398.
- Wang C, Suder W, Ding J & Williams S (2021) The effect of wire size on high deposition rate wire and plasma arc additive manufacture of Ti-6Al-4V, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 288 (February) Article No. 116842.
- Zhang T, Li H, Gong H, Ding J, Wu Y, Diao C, Zhang X & Williams S (2021) Hybrid wire - arc additive manufacture and effect of rolling process on microstructure and tensile properties of Inconel 718, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Available online 8 September 2021, Article No. 117361.
- Wang C, Suder W, Ding J & Williams S (2021) Bead shape control in wire based plasma arc and laser hybrid additive manufacture of Ti-6Al-4V, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 68 (Pt.A) 1849-1859. Dataset/s: 10.17862/cranfield.rd.14963061.v1
- Syed AK, Zhang X, Davis AE, Kennedy JR, Martina F, Ding J, Williams S & Prangnell PB (2021) Effect of deposition strategies on fatigue crack growth behaviour of wire plus arc additive manufactured titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V, Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructures and Processing, 814 (May) Article No. 141194.
- Ayarkwa KF, Pinter Z, Eimer E, Williams S, Ding J & Suder W (2021) Effect of the deposition strategy on Al-Cu alloy wire+ arc additive manufacture, SVR - Materials Science and Engineering Technology, 1 (1) 28-34.
- Gornyakov V, Sun Y, Ding J & Williams S (2021) Computationally efficient models of high pressure rolling for wire arc additively manufactured components, Applied Sciences, 11 (1) Article No. 402. Dataset/s: 10.17862/cranfield.rd.13514419
- Wang C, Suder W, Ding J & Williams S (2021) Wire based plasma arc and laser hybrid additive manufacture of Ti-6Al-4V, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 294 (July) Article No. 117080. Dataset/s: 10.17862/cranfield.rd.3806287
- Davis AE, Kennedy JR, Ding J & Prangnell PB (2020) The effect of processing parameters on rapid-heating β recrystallization in inter-pass deformed Ti-6Al-4V wire-arc additive manufacturing, Materials Characterization, 163 (May) Article No. 110298.
- Eimer E, Suder W, Williams S & Ding J (2020) Wire laser arc additive manufacture of aluminium zinc alloys, Welding in the World, 64 (8) 1313-1319.
- Zhang X, Wang K, Zhou Q, Kong J, Peng Y, Ding J, Diao C, Yang D, Huang Y, Zhang T & Williams SW (2020) Element partitioning and electron backscatter diffraction analysis from feeding wire to as-deposited microstructure of wire and arc additive manufacturing with super duplex stainless steel, Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructures and Processing, 773 (January) Article No. 138856.
- Seow CE, Zhang J, Coules HE, Wu G, Jones C, Ding J & Williams S (2020) Effect of crack-like defects on the fracture behaviour of Wire + Arc additively manufactured nickel-base Alloy 718, Additive Manufacturing, 36 (December) Article No. 101578.
- Gu J, Yang S, Gao M, Bai J, Zhai Y & Ding J (2020) Micropore evolution in additively manufactured aluminum alloys under heat treatment and inter-layer rolling, Materials and Design, 186 (January) Article No. 108288.
- Gu J, Gao M, Yang S, Bai J, Zhai Y & Ding J (2020) Microstructure, defects, and mechanical properties of wire + arc additively manufactured AlCu4.3-Mg1.5 alloy, Materials and Design, 186 (January) Article No. 108357.
- Caballero A, Ding J, Bandari Y & Williams S (2019) Oxidation of Ti-6Al-4V during wire and arc additive manufacture, 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, 6 (2) 91-98.
- Zhang X, Wang K, Zhou Q, Ding J, Ganguly S, Grasso M, Yang D, Xu X, Dirisu P & Williams SW (2019) Microstructure and mechanical properties of TOP-TIG-wire and arc additive manufactured super duplex stainless steel (ER2594), Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructures and Processing, 762 (August) Article No. 138097.
- Caballero A, Ding J, Ganguly S & Williams S (2019) Wire + Arc Additive Manufacture of 17-4 PH stainless steel: Effect of different processing conditions on microstructure, hardness, and tensile strength, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 268 (June) 54-62.
- Gu J, Gao M, Yang S, Bai J, Ding J & Fang X (2019) Pore formation and evolution in wire + arc additively manufactured 2319 Al alloy, Additive Manufacturing, 30 (December) Article No. 100900.
- Martina F, Ding J, Williams S, Caballero A, Pardal C & Quintino L (2019) Tandem metal inert gas process for high productivity wire arc additive manufacturing in stainless steel, Additive Manufacturing, 25 (January) 545-550.
- Xu X, Ding J, Ganguly S & Williams S (2019) Investigation of process factors affecting mechanical properties of INCONEL 718 superalloy in wire plus arc additive manufacture process, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 265 (March) 201-209.
- Qi Z, Qi B, Cong B, Sun H, Zhao G & Ding J (2019) Microstructure and mechanical properties of wire + arc additively manufactured 2024 aluminum alloy components: As-deposited and post heat-treated, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 40 (April) 27-36.
- Javadi Y, MacLeod CN, Pierce SG, Gachagan A, Kerr W, Ding J, Williams S, Vasilev M, Su R, Mineo C & Dziewierz J (2019) Ultrasonic phased array inspection of wire plus arc additive manufacture samples using conventional and total focusing method imaging approaches, Insight: Non-Destructive Testing & Condition Monitoring, 61 (3) 144-148.
- Zhang X, Zhou Q, Wang K, Peng Y, Ding J, Kong J & Williams S (2019) Study on microstructure and tensile properties of high nitrogen Cr-Mn steel processed by CMT wire and arc additive manufacturing, Materials and Design, 166 (March) Article No. 107611.
- Xu X, Ding J, Ganguly S, Diao C & Williams S (2019) Preliminary investigation of building strategies of maraging steel bulk material using wire + arc additive manufacture, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 28 (2) 594-600.
- Xu X, Ganguly S, Ding J, Dirisu P, Martina F, Liu X & Williams SW (2019) Improving mechanical properties of wire plus arc additively manufactured maraging steel through plastic deformation enhanced aging response, Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructures and Processing, 747 (February) 111-118.
- Davis A, Breheny C, Fellowes J, Nwankpa U, Martina F, Ding J, Machry T & Prangnell P (2019) Mechanical performance and microstructural characterisation of titanium alloy-alloy composites built by wire-arc additive manufacture, Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructures and Processing, 765 (September) Article No. 138289.
- Michel F, Lockett H, Ding J, Martina F, Marinelli G & Williams S (2019) A modular path planning solution for Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 60 (December) 1-11.
- Charrett TOH, Bandari Y, Michel F, Ding J, Williams SW & Tatam RP (2018) A non-contact laser speckle sensor for the measurement of robotic tool speed, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 53 (October) 187-196. Dataset/s: 10.17862/cranfield.rd.4758472
- Xu X, Ding J, Ganguly S, Diao C & Williams S (2018) Oxide accumulation effects on wire + arc layer-by-layer additive manufacture process, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 252 (February) 739-750. Dataset/s: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2017.10.030
- Qi Z, Cong B, Qi B, Zhao G & Ding J (2018) Properties of wire+ arc additively manufactured 2024 aluminum alloy with different solution treatment temperature, Materials Letters, 230 (November) 275-278.
- Gu J, Bai J, Ding J, Williams S, Wang L & Liu K (2018) Design and cracking susceptibility of additively manufactured Al-Cu-Mg alloys with tandem wires and pulsed arc, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 262 (December) 210-220.
- Qi Z, Cong B, Qi B, Sun H, Zhao G & Ding J (2018) Microstructure and mechanical properties of double-wire + arc additively manufactured Al-Cu-Mg alloys, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 255 (May) 347-353.
- Xu X, Ganguly S, Ding J, Huo S, Williams S & Martina F (2018) Microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of maraging steel produced by wire + arc additive manufacture process, Materials Characterization, 143 (September) 152-162.
- Gu J, Wang X, Bai J, Ding J, Williams S, Zhai Y & Liu K (2018) Deformation microstructures and strengthening mechanisms for the wire+arc additively manufactured Al-Mg4.5Mn alloy with inter-layer rolling, Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructures and Processing, 712 (January) 292-301.
- Lockett H, Ding J, Williams S & Martina F (2017) Design for wire+arc additive manufacture: design rules and build orientation selection, Journal of Engineering Design, 28 (7-9) 568-598.
- Cong B, Qi Z, Qi B, Sun H, Zhao G & Ding J (2017) A comparative study of additively manufactured thin wall and block structure with Al-6.3% Cu alloy using cold metal transfer process, Applied Sciences, 7 (3) Article No. 275.
- Zhang X, Martina F, Ding J, Wang X & Williams SW (2017) Fracture toughness and fatigue crack growth rate properties in wire + arc additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V, Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, 40 (5) 790-803.
- Ayarkwa KF, Williams SW & Ding J (2017) Assessing the effect of TIG alternating current time cycle on aluminium wire+ arc additive manufacture, Additive Manufacturing, 18 (December) 186-193.
- Font comas T, Diao C, Ding J, Williams S & Zhao Y (2017) A passive imaging system for geometry measurement for the plasma arc welding process, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 64 (9) 7201-7209.
- Zhan Q, Liang Y, Ding J & Williams S (2017) A wire deflection detection method based on image processing in wire + arc additive manufacturing, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 89 (1-4) 755-763.
- Williams SW, Martina F, Addison AC, Ding J, Pardal G & Colegrove P (2016) Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing, Materials Science and Technology, 32 (7) 641-647.
- Gu J, Ding J, Williams S, Gu H, Bai J, Zhai Y & Ma P (2016) The strengthening effect of inter-layer cold working and post-deposition heat treatment on the additively manufactured Al-6.3Cu alloy, Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructures and Processing, 651 (January) 18-26.
- Gu J, Ding J, Williams S, Gu H, Ma P & Zhai Y (2016) The effect of inter-layer cold working and post-deposition heat treatment on porosity in additively manufactured aluminum alloys, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 230 (April) 26-34.
- Zhang J, Zhang X, Wang X, Ding J, Traoré Y, Paddea S & Williams S (2016) Crack path selection at the interface of wrought and wire + arc additive manufactured Ti–6Al–4V, Materials and Design, 104 (August) 365-375.
- Cong B, Ouyang R, Qi B. & Ding J. (2016) Influence of cold metal transfer process and its heat input on weld bead geometry and porosity of aluminum-copper alloy welds, Rare Metal Materials and Engineering, 45 (3) 606-611.
- Busachi A, Erkoyuncu J, Colegrove P, Martina F & Ding J (2015) Designing a WAAM based manufacturing system for defence applications, Procedia CIRP, 37 48-53.
- Ding J, Colegrove P, Martina F, Williams S, Wiktorowicz R & Palt M (2015) Development of a laminar flow local shielding device for wire + arc additive manufacture, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 226 (December) 99-105.
- Ayarkwa K F, Williams S & Ding J (2015) Investigation of pulse advance cold metal transfer on aluminium wire arc additive manufacturing, International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing, 5 (1) 44-57.
- Cong B & Ding J (2014) Influence of CMT process on porosity of wire arc additive manufactured Al-Cu alloy, Rare Metal Materials and Engineering, 43 (12) 3149-3153.
- Colegrove P, Mehnen J, Williams S, Wang F, Almeida P & Ding J (2014) A computationally efficient finite element model of wire and arc additive manufacture, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 70 (1-4) 227-236.
- Cong B, Ding J & Williams S (2014) Effect of arc mode in cold metal transfer process on porosity of additively manufactured Al-6.3%Cu alloy, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 76 (9) 1593-1606.
- Mehnen J, Ding J, Lockett H & Panos K (2013) Design study for wire and arc additive manufacture, International Journal of Product Development, 19 (1-3) 2-20.
- Mehnen J, Ganguly S, Almeida P, Williams S, Colegrove P, Wang F & Ding J (2011) Thermo-mechanical analysis of Wire and Arc Additive Layer Manufacturing process on large multi-layer parts, Computational Materials Science, 50 (12) 3315-3322.
Conference Papers
- Diao C, Eimer E, Mancini S, Krishnaswamy S, Schwarz F, Pagone E, Ding J, Williams S, Pinter Z & Martina F (2022) Manufacture of large-scale space exploration components using wire + arc additive manufacturing. In: ICAS 2022: 33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Stockholm, 4-9 September 2022.
- Zhu S, Salas Avila JR, Yin W, Peyton AJ, Ding J & Williams S (2020) Real-time measurement of electrical conductivity for aluminium wires using a novel calibration method. In: 2020 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), Dubrovnik, 25-28 May 2020.
- Kissinger T, Gomis B, Ding J, Williams SW & Tatam RP (2019) Measurements of wire + arc additive manufacturing layer heights during arc operation using coherent range-resolved interferometry (CO-RRI). In: Joint Special Interest Group meeting between euspen and ASPE Advancing Precision in Additive Manufacturing, 2019, Nantes, 16-18 September 2019.
- Zhang X, Syed AK, Biswal R, Martina F, Ding J & Williams S (2019) High cycle fatigue and fatigue crack growth rate in additive manufactured titanium alloys. In: ICAF 2019 Structural Integrity in the Age of Additive Manufacturing, Krakow, 2-7 June 2019.
- Charrett TOH, Bandari YK, Michel F, Ding J, Williams SW & Tatam RP (2017) Laser speckle velocimetry for robot manufacturing. In: SPIE Optical Metrology 2017, Munich, 26-29 June 2017. Dataset/s: http://dx.doi.org/10.17862/cranfield.rd.4868222
- Bandari Y, Charrett T, Michel F, Ding J, Williams S & Tatam R (2016) Compensation strategies for robotic motion errors for additive manufacturing. In: 27th Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, 2016, Austin, Texas, 8-10 August 2016.
- Mehnen J, Ding J, Lockett H & Kazanas P (2010) Design for wire and arc additive layer manufacture. In: 20th CIRP design conference: global product development, Nantes, 19-21 April 2010.
- Ding J, Wessing S, Trautmann H, Mehnen J & Naujoks B Sequential Parameter Optimization for Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization of Additive Layer Manufacturing. In: INTELLIGENT COMPUTATION IN MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING, ICME 2010, CIRP conference, Naples, Italy.
