Objective
Proposal prepared with the help of an Exploratory Award which included a Research Feasibility study. The Feasibility Study Report is annexed to this Stage 2 Proposal. Kaylite Technology is a new technology for building large scale artefacts such as architectural and civil engineering structures using a newly designed group of ceramic composite materials. It was originally conceived to produce high performance shell structures for use in the hulls of marine craft but the Feasibility Study demonstrated a much wider commercial potential in other, often less demanding, applications. The concept of Kaylite Technology is that complex artefacts can be designed and built by CAD/CAM on a commercial scale more quickly, accurately and cheaply than any other process currently in existence. The process enables sophisticated stress analysis to be performed at the CAD stage which can be incorporated not only into the structural design but into the physical and chemical formulation of the composite materials at the point of manufacture in a structure. The heart of the Kaylite system is a particle projector (roughly analogous to a bubble jet printer) producing very small packets of precisely batched materials which can be placed to an accuracy of +/ 0.3mm onto the structure under manufacture. Unlike conventional sandwich materials there are no shear planes between materials of differing composition; the formulation is phased gradually to produce a (pseudo homogenous) pseud sandwich structure. The theory of structural design using composites is currently unrefined and is preceded by practice; Kaylite technology is able to improve upon practical techniques and, additionally (and very importantly), to provide a powerful analytical tool for research enabling exceptionally detailed analysis of experimental structures since the history of every elemental part of the structure produced by the Kaylite process is accessible through the software.
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- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- humanities history and archaeology history
- engineering and technology materials engineering composites
- engineering and technology civil engineering
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TR27 5HA Hayle
United Kingdom
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