A welded joint manufacturing method includes: abutting a first electrode against a first steel sheet of a welded joint at a site A, which is a location at an outer side of a nugget in a sheet-plane direction in a plane running parallel to the first steel sheet; abutting a second electrode against a second steel sheet at a site B, which is a location at an outer side of the nugget in a sheet-plane direction in a plane running parallel to the first steel sheet of the welded joint, and positioned on an opposite side of the nugget from the site A; and passing a current through the welded joint between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Various embodiments include an acoustic-energy deposition system that includes at least one Directed Acoustic Energy Deposition (DAED) tool configured to apply acoustic energy to feedstock material in at least one of three vibrational modes and apply intermittent material-tool contact to allow continuous deposition; and a drive system to move the DAED tool in at least one of three-coordinate positions. In various examples, the acoustic-energy deposition and repair system further includes at least one in-situ metrology tool mounted proximal to the DAED tool to measure a grain size of deposited material. Other methods, devices, apparatuses, and systems are disclosed.

The present disclosure provides a system for printing at least a portion of a three-dimensional (3D) object. The system may comprise a source of at least one feedstock, a support for supporting at least a portion of the 3D object, a feeder for directing at least one feedstock from the source towards the support, and a power supply for supplying electrical current. The system may comprise a controller operatively coupled to the power supply. The controller may receive a computational representation of the 3D object. The controller may direct the at least one feedstock through a feeder towards the support and may direct electrical current through the at least one feedstock and into the support. The controller may subject such feedstock to Joule heating such that at least a portion of such feedstock may deposit adjacent to the support, thereby printing the 3D object in accordance with the computational representation.

A class of metallic composites is described with advantageous bulk properties for additive fabrication. In particular, the composites described herein can be used in fused filament fabrication or any other extrusion or deposition-based three-dimensional printing process.

A system for producing an object is disclosed including a build device having a build area and a material bonding component to receive portions of a material that are used to produce the object, at least one gripper within the build area to contact the object to provide support and to provide for at least one of a heat sink for the object, a cold sink for the object, and electrical dissipation path from the object, and a movement mechanism to move the build device relative to the object to position the build device at a position to further produce the object. Another system and methods are also disclosed.

A wear-resistant member contains a Cr-based alloy material. The Cr-based alloy material includes more than 40 mass % and 65 mass % or less of Cr, 15 mass % or more and 40 mass % or less of Ni, more than 0 mass % and 30 mass % or less of Fe, 5 mass % or more and 16 mass % or less of Nb, 0.1 mass % or more and 0.9 mass % or less of Ti, 0.6 mass % or more and 2.5 mass % or less of C, 2 mass % or less of Mn, and impurities. In the Cr-based alloy, a mass ratio Ti/Nb of the Nb and the Ti is 0.063 or less.