There is some work of Bellehumeur from the beginning of 2000 where she modified the Pokluda sintering model in this context in order to predict bonding strength. There is also a thesis of Sidonie Costa in this framework. A quick search in literature databases should show these to you.
You can use either ANSYS Workbench /ANSYS Mechanical for your desired purpose by using "DEATH and BIRTH codes" . For that firstly, you have to create elements in your geometry depicting the deposited material. Initially, these elements were killed by writing codes in " command snippet" using 'EKILL command' in ANSYS Workbench (I followed the same procedure for welding moving heat source). Subsequently, these elements were made alive step by step by using 'EALIVE' command.