Objective
The engineering workshops throughout Europe are predominantly SMEs. Higher demands in recent times have been put on those SMEs to increase productivity whilst at the same time they are being presented with increasingly more difficult to cut materials which is beyond the capability of their present machine tools. Although substantial improvements in cutting tool materials have been achieved in recent years these have been developed to be used with more robust, sophisticated and expensive machine tools which the average SME finds difficult to acquire.These conflicting requirements call for a set of new tools which can bridge the gap between the harder and more abrasion resistant cemented carbide/ceramic tools and the more conventional HSS's which are inherently tougher and more benign to intermittent cutting operations. This proposal seeks to introduce a range of alloys tested in a feasibility study and shown to offer encouraging improvements when used in intermittent cutting operations over the best available HSS. The programme of work outlined in this Stage 2 Proposal seeks to further develop the technologies for producing a range of compositions specifically designed to address machining operations such as milling, drilling/reaming, gear cutting/hobbing. This is a good representative range of machining operations that call for high hot hardness and good toughness of cutting tool materials. PM techniques including Mechanical Alloying and Hot Isostatic Pressing will be utilised to produce near net shape blanks from which the relevant tools can be produced. These will be tested under controlled laboratory conditions and industrially on a range of alloys including advanced steels, superalloys and titanium alloys. It is anticipated that a range of compositions will be derived and tools made from these will be tested under various machining conditions so that machining data can be generated for the subsequent exploitation of these technologies/materials. Anticipating the difficulties in introducing new tools to the Industry, a consortium has been assembled covering all the elements of the supply chain to make the exploitation easier. It is estimated that the benefit to the SME partners will be 5.45 MECU over the 5 years after the end of the project and to SMEs outside the consortium 108 MECU.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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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.
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry inorganic compounds
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry transition metals
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering manufacturing engineering subtractive manufacturing
- social sciences economics and business economics production economics productivity
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B66 2JR Smethwick - Warley
United Kingdom
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