Objective
Iron castings represent over 80% of total foundry production and provide key components in the automotive powers earthmoving, construction and machine tool industry. As a near-to-net-shape forming technique, casting exhibits the optimum in material economy. Not only is expensive machining minimised but substantial economies in valuable raw material can be realised. At present, however there exists no universal acceptance criteria for the welding of cast iron component, either during production or for weld repair during service. This makes it difficult for producers. "mostly SMEs" to specify acceptable weld standards. SME foundries would benefit considerably by reducing production costs. by having the capacity to repair casting defects and users will be able to weld repair failcd or damaged service components in preference to complete renewal. However, in acting individually neither SME producers nor SME users have been able to develop internationally accepted weld procedures for cast iron. primarily due to a lack of R&D facilities and insufficient funds for a major undertaking of this kind. The overall aim of the proposed project is to develop improved and widely accepted procedures for the welding of cast iron. Such a study will benefit both the users of cast iron components and more specifically the foundries that produce them. Overall costs will be reduced as a consequence of lower scrap rates. The existence of accepted procedures is likely to extend the potential application of cast iron.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering manufacturing engineering subtractive manufacturing
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FK5 4BE Larbert
United Kingdom
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