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EPSRC Reference: GR/L53298/01
Title: IMI: COMPOSITE FORMING TOOLING BY THERMAL SPRAYING (SPRAY & MOULD)
Principal Investigator: Wimpenny, Professor D
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Project Partners:
Airbus Group Limited BAE Systems Bombardier
Poeton Industries Ltd Pre Nexus Migration Rover Ltd
Department: Sch of Engineering
Organisation: University of Warwick
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 11 August 1997 Ends: 10 August 2000 Value (£): 345,395
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Materials testing & eng.
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Aerospace, Defence and Marine
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The project aims to develop a new technique for the rapid, automated manufacture of low-cost composite forming tools for the aerospace industry, using a thermal spraying process to produce a metal shell which is subsequently supported to produce a tool. The process has the potential to reduce the toolings cost and lead-times by at least 60%The tooling will be designed and evaluated for a range of composite forming processes including vacuum bagging, RTM and compression moulding.
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