Table 3

Summary of the application of the Hermite representation to the experimental data reported by Kindermann et al. (2020) 

Experimental setupGeneratorFronius CMT 4000
Gas typeAr 100%
Gas flow rate [l/min]15
Wire diameter (dw) [mm]1.2
Wire materialLow carbon steel
Means of measureMeltView MIRA2
Cases reported in Figure 18 abcdef
Deposition parametersMulti-bead––––––
Multi-layer––––––
Power [W]470047174642270035574717
Wire feed rate (WFR) [m/min]1010106810
Travel speed (TS) [mm/s]3.336.6713.336.676.676.67
WFR/TS502512.5152025
Obtained bead sizesWidth (w) [mm]13.3910.356.75.87.7910.35
Height (h) [mm]5.053.743.023.613.783.74
h/w0.380.360.450.620.490.36
Deposited area (Ad) [mm2]56.5528.2614.1416.9622.6128.26
Measured area (Am) [mm2]51.2328.131517.2922.9528.23
Am – Ad [mm2]−5.32−0.130.860.330.34−0.03
(Am – ad)/ad−9.4%−0.5%6.1%2%1.5%−0.1%
Parabola modelAp [mm2]45.0825.8113.4913.9619.6325.81
ed−20.3%−8.7%−4.6%−17.7%−13.2%−8.7%
em−12%−8.3%−10.1%−19.3%−14.5%−8.6%
Cosine modelAp [mm2]43.0524.6412.8813.3318.7524.64
ed−23.9%−12.8%−8.9%−21.4%−17.1%−12.8%
em−16%−12.4%−14.1%−22.9%−18.3%−12.7%
Ellipse modelAp [mm2]53.0830.3915.8816.4423.1230.39
ed−6.1%7.5%12.3%−3.1%2.2%7.5%
em3.6%8%5.9%−4.9%0.7%7.6%
Proposed Hermite modelAh [mm2]51.2728.1314.9817.3222.9528.13
Contact angle θ1 [°]786976958569
Contact angle θ2 [°]786976958569
ed−9.3%−0.5%5.9%2.2%1.5%−0.5%
em0.1%0%−0.1%0.2%0%−0.4%
Source(s): Table by authors

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