Contact Dr João Bento
- Email: Joao.Bento@cranfield.ac.uk
- ORCID
Background
João Bento is a Research Fellow in Additive Manufacturing. He finished his PhD at Cranfield University in 2024 and was part of the NEWAM project. His research was focused on developing high deposition rate Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing processes and contributed to the HPWAAM and WAAMMat projects as well. He received his Bachelor's and Master's in Mechanical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (Portugal). His master's thesis (2018) was entitled Non-Destructive Testing of large metal parts produced by Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing, and this was his first contact with WAAM technology. The work for his master's thesis was part of a European Project (LASIMM), which he joined as a Research Assistant until coming to the United Kingdom. He has lived, studied, and worked in Portugal, Denmark, and the United Kingdom so far. He is a hands-on person who likes to constantly challenge himself to achieve new goals.
Current activities
João is currently working on an AKT project with an industrial partner. The name of the project is Next generation high-performance MIG process for AM.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Wang C, Wang J, Bento J, Ding J, Rodrigues Pardal G, .... (2023). A novel cold wire gas metal arc (CW-GMA) process for high productivity additive manufacturing. Additive Manufacturing, 73(July)
- Bento J, Wang C, Ding J & Williams S. (2023). Process control methods in cold wire gas metal arc additive manufacturing. Metals, 13(8)
- Bento JB, Lopez A, Pires I, Quintino L & Santos TG. (2019). Non-destructive testing for wire + arc additive manufacturing of aluminium parts. Additive Manufacturing, 29