Experimental and simulation data for point-by-point wire arc additively manufactured carbon steel bars loaded in...

Wire arc additive manufacturing is considered to allow a reduced material consumption for structural steel components by efficiently distributing the material only where necessary. Parts produced with this technology exhibit an irregular, imperfect geometry, which influences their structural behaviour. This paper describes a dataset, which includes geometry information for point-by-point wire arc additively manufactured steel bars, force and displacement measurements from performed uniaxial tensile tests on such bars, and force and displacement values from geometrically and materially non-linear simulations of the bars with imperfect geometry. The geometry data was obtained by 3D scanning the steel bars. Moreover, a script is provided that allows processing the scanned geometry data such that it can be used to generate suitable finite element meshes for geometrically and materially non-linear analyses. The force and displacement data from the uniaxial tensile tests were collected through measurements with a load cell for the force and with the help of digital image correlation measurements for the displacements. The non-linear simulations of the experiments were conducted with the computer aided engineering software Abaqus on processed approximations of the irregular scanned geometry. The described dataset can be used for better understanding the influence of the irregular geometry on the structural behaviour of wire arc additively manufactured parts. Moreover, researchers can apply the data to validate finite element simulation models and approaches for predicting the structural behaviour of different wire arc additively manufactured parts.