| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L30954/01 |
| Title: |
SPRAY FORMED TOOLS AND DIES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Grant, Professor P |
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| Department: |
Materials |
| Organisation: |
University of Oxford |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
17 March 1997 |
Ends: |
16 March 2000 |
Value (£): |
381,975
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| Manufacturing Machine & Plant |
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Spray forming is a new technique which has potential for significant reductions in the lead times of tools and dies needed for product prototyping and manufacture in a wide range of industrial applications. It involves the spraying of tool steel onto a shaped master which is subsequently removed to leave a free standing tool or die. It is low cost, dimensionally accurate and has produced demonstrator tools and dies with improved performance. However, there is currently little underlying scientific understanding of the spray forming complex shapes. Poor replication of substrate features, the evolution of shape and the effect of thermal residual stresses are poorly understood. The proposed research will observe directly the behaviour of droplets in the metal spray by novel use of particle images velocimetry (PIV), and relate measurements back to final shape, microstructure and performance. Complementary numerical models of spray behaviour simulations are likely to find additional application in a range of other spray processes. Ultimately, the research aims to give the designer the manufacturing process implications of part geometry prior to fabrication.
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