| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/C51520X/1 |
| Title: |
Use of polymer coated steel sheet for the large-scale production of food and beverage containers |
| Principal Investigator: |
Owen, Professor DR |
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| Department: |
College of Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Swansea University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 September 2005 |
Ends: |
31 August 2008 |
Value (£): |
234,402
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| Manufact. Enterprise Ops& Mgmt |
Materials testing & eng. |
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The proposal aims to explore the potential for manufacturing food and beverage containers from polymer-coated steel sheet, which is anticipated to be a principal future process for container production. The objectives of the work programme are to implement and employ computational techniques to provide the knowledge necessary for the canmaking industry to develop large-scale production processes for attractive and novel can designs manufactured from polymer coated sheet stock. These computational developments will rely on input from an experimental programme of material development and testing, together with the prototype manufacturing of containers, to be undertaken by the industrial partner.End users will be provided with a knowledge base that will enable complex forming operations for polymer coated steel cans to be scientifically designed, allowing the material composition, the can design and the process parameters to be optimised with regard to material selection, manufacture and final product performance. The programme of work will be based on the development of computational simulation procedures for alternative forming operations that typically involve a combination of, blanking, deep drawing, wall ironing, dome forming and necking; as well as shaping operations for more novel containers. Evaluation of the final computational predictive capability with regard to container performance and can production will be based on comparison with canmaking trials on semi commercial equipment, which is essential to realistically appraise the potential industrial performance of the end product.
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http://www.swan.ac.uk |