Publications

This page brings together selected academic, professional, and media publications that reflect my work in advanced manufacturing and related systems. It is intentionally curated rather than exhaustive. A complete and regularly updated list of academic publications is available via my Google Scholar profile.

Selected awards and recognitions are listed separately.

Selected journal articles

The focus below is on contributions to large-scale metal additive manufacturing and its industrialisation.

Martina, F.; Mehnen, J.; Williams, S. W.; Colegrove, P.; Wang, F. Investigation of the benefits of plasma deposition for the additive layer manufacture of Ti-6Al-4V. Journal of Materials Processing Technology (2012).

Colegrove, P. A.; Coules, H. E.; Fairman, J.; Martina, F.; Kashoob, T.; Mamash, H.; Cozzolino, L. D. Microstructure and residual stress improvement in wire and arc additively manufactured parts through high-pressure rolling. Journal of Materials Processing Technology (2013).

Williams, S. W.; Martina, F.; Addison, A. C.; Ding, J.; Pardal, G.; Colegrove, P. Wire + arc additive manufacturing. Materials Science and Technology (2015).

Martina, F.; Colegrove, P. A.; Williams, S. W.; Meyer, J. Microstructure of interpass rolled wire + arc additive manufacturing Ti-6Al-4V components. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (2015).

Szost, B. A.; Terzi, S.; Martina, F.; Boisselier, D.; Prytuliak, A.; Pirling, T.; Hofmann, M.; Jarvis, D. J. A comparative study of additive manufacturing techniques: residual stress and microstructural analysis of CLAD and WAAM printed Ti-6Al-4V components. Materials & Design (2016).

Donoghue, J.; Antonysamy, A. A.; Martina, F.; Colegrove, P. A.; Williams, S. W.; Prangnell, P. B. The effectiveness of combining rolling deformation with wire–arc additive manufacture on β-grain refinement and texture modification in Ti-6Al-4V. Materials Characterization (2016).

Thompson, M. K.; Moroni, G.; Vaneker, T.; Fadel, G.; Campbell, R. I.; Gibson, I.; Bernard, A.; Schulz, J.; Graf, P.; Ahuja, B.; et al. Design for additive manufacturing: trends, opportunities, considerations, and constraints. CIRP Annals – Manufacturing Technology (2016).

Zhang, X.; Martina, F.; Ding, J.; Wang, X.; Williams, S. W. Fracture toughness and fatigue crack growth rate properties in wire + arc additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V. Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures (2017).

Xu, X.; Ganguly, S.; Ding, J.; Dirisu, P.; Martina, F.; Liu, X.; Williams, S. W. Improving mechanical properties of wire plus arc additively manufactured maraging steel through plastic deformation enhanced aging response. Materials Science and Engineering: A (2019).

Marinelli, G.; Martina, F.; Ganguly, S.; Williams, S. Development of wire + arc additive manufacture for the production of large-scale unalloyed tungsten components. International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials (2019).

Michel, F.; Lockett, H.; Ding, J.; Martina, F.; Marinelli, G.; Williams, S. A modular path planning solution for wire + arc additive manufacturing. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (2019).

Davis, A. E.; Breheny, C. I.; Fellowes, J.; Nwankpa, U.; Martina, F.; Ding, J.; Machry, T.; Prangnell, P. B. Mechanical performance and microstructural characterisation of titanium alloy-alloy composites built by wire-arc additive manufacture. Materials Science and Engineering: A (2019).

Donoghue, J.; Davis, A. E.; Daniel, C. S.; Garner, A.; Martina, F.; da Fonseca, J. Q.; Prangnell, P. B. On the observation of annealing twins during simulating β-grain refinement in Ti-6Al-4V high deposition rate AM with in-process deformation. Acta Materialia (2020).

Catalano, A. R.; Pagone, E.; Martina, F.; Priarone, P. C.; Settineri, L. Wire arc additive manufacturing of Ti-6Al-4V components: the effects of the deposition rate on cradle-to-gate economic and environmental performance. Procedia CIRP (2023).

Selected conference articles

Martina, F. High-pressure rolling reduces grain size and distortion, improves mechanical properties and produces isotropy in Ti-6Al-4V wire + arc additively manufactured parts. AeroMat Conference and Exposition (2013).

Bandari, Y. K.; Williams, S. W.; Ding, J.; Martina, F. Additive manufacture of large structures: robotic or CNC systems? Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (2015).

Prabakar, A.; Martina, F.; Suder, W.; Ganguly, S.; Williams, S. W. High-pressure cold rolling and laser processing of plasma-welded Ti-6Al-4V plates. Metallic materials and processes: industrial challenges (Deauville) (2015).

Neto, L.; Williams, S.; Ding, J.; Hönnige, J.; Martina, F. Mechanical properties enhancement of additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V by machine hammer peening. International conference on advanced surface enhancement (2019).

Arrè, L.; Pagone, E.; Laghi, V.; Martina, F.; Palermo, M. Comparative life-cycle assessment of novel steel section design with wire arc additive manufacturing. TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition (2025).

Arrè, L.; Pagone, E.; Laghi, V.; Martina, F.; Palermo, M. Carbon Footprint of Wire Arc Additively Manufactured Optimized Structural Steel Element. ce/papers Proceedings in civil engineering (2025).

Books and chapters

Pagone, E.; Antonissen, J.; Martina, F. Life cycle sustainability assessment of repair through wire and arc additive manufacturing. In REWAS 2022: Developing Tomorrow’s Technical Cycles (Volume I) (Springer, 2022).

Martina, F.; Sun, Y.; Krishnaswamy, S.; Ganguly, S. Metal additive manufacturing MSc: a pioneering global master’s course for leaders of future manufacturing. In Additive Manufacturing Teaching and Training Case Studies: Education Strategies for Additive Manufacturing (Springer Nature, 2025).

PhD thesis

Martina, F. Investigation of methods to manipulate geometry, microstructure and mechanical properties in titanium large scale wire + arc additive manufacturing. PhD thesis, Cranfield University (2014).

Selected reports, datasets, and other items

Martina, F. Additive manufacturing: current status and future developments. Submitted to the Royal Aeronautical Society (2013).

Martina, F.; Williams, S. W. Wire + arc additive manufacturing vs traditional machining from solid: a cost comparison. Welding Engineering and Laser Processing Centre, Cranfield University (2015).

Diao, C.; Eimer, E.; Mancini, S.; Krishnaswamy, S.; Schwarz, F.; Pagone, E.; Ding, J.; Williams, S.; Pinter, Z.; Martina, F. Manufacture of large-scale space exploration components using wire + arc additive manufacturing. ICAS (2022).