INTRAPID
Innovative inspection techniques for laser powder deposition quality control
| Coordinatore | TWI LIMITED
Organization address
address: Granta Park, Great Abington contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 1˙442˙306 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙122˙700 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2011 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2011 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2011-09-01 - 2013-08-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
TWI LIMITED
Organization address
address: Granta Park, Great Abington contact info |
UK (CAMBRIDGE) | coordinator | 84˙227.00 |
| 2 |
BYTEST SRL
Organization address
address: VIA PISA 12 contact info |
IT (VOLPIANO) | participant | 323˙409.00 |
| 3 |
TECNITEST INGENIEROS SL
Organization address
address: Calle Ciudad de Frias 1-Nave 4 contact info |
ES (MADRID) | participant | 260˙688.00 |
| 4 |
LPW TECHNOLOGY LTD
Organization address
address: KECKWICK LANE VANGUARD HOUSE DARESBURY SCIENCE & INNOVATION CAMPUS contact info |
UK (DARESBURY) | participant | 208˙300.00 |
| 5 |
POLKOM BADANIA SP ZOO
Organization address
address: UK IGNACEGO KRASICKIEGO 35 contact info |
PL (WARSZAWA) | participant | 165˙950.00 |
| 6 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO
Organization address
address: PIAZZA MARINA 61 contact info |
IT (PALERMO) | participant | 31˙250.00 |
| 7 |
TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE
Organization address
address: Bourgetlaan - Avenue du Bourget 60 contact info |
BE (BRUSSELS) | participant | 27˙126.00 |
| 8 |
KINGSTON COMPUTER CONSULTANCY LIMITED
Organization address
address: WORSHIP STREET, CRYSTAL GATE 28-30 contact info |
UK (LONDON) | participant | 21˙750.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Laser Powder Deposition is a recently developed technology for manufacture of small intricate metal parts such as those used in aerospace and automobile engines. This technology has significant potential advantages over conventional casting methods in that small parts with internal features can be built, enabling special processes and light structures to be constructed. The powder deposition process works by melting a layer of powder in a pattern determined by the path of a laser. The layers are either 500 μm or 20-50 μm thick depending on the process used. To take full advantage of the intricacy of form enabled by these additive technology approaches in these applications commensurate non-destructive inspection capability is needed which can support the cycle times needed in Rapid Agile manufacture of high performance, high loading efficiency structures. This requires an inspection process capable of handling the complex evolving forms, in cycle with a processing environment with a feature resolution on a scale relevant to the component structural elements. This project aims to address this problem and provide non-destructive testing techniques with known capabilities for the process. Objectives: • To provide inspection methods for the laser powder deposition process with known capability. • To manufacture a prototype laser powder deposition manufacturing system with known inspection capabilities and to demonstrate these capabilities. Candidate inspection technologies have been identified that have potential to provide the inspection capability. Note that these will probably need to be robotically deployed and remotely operated within the laser cell between the deposition of each layer. Eddy current, ultrasound signals generated by lasers, thermal patterns and optical methods for surface distortion measurement technologies will be evaluated, developed and the performance established for the range of defects and sizes required.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
The automotive and aerospace industries require the manufacture of small intricate metal parts for engines and laser metal deposition (LMD) technology could meet this need. Currently, quality control (QC) is an issue despite sample destructive testing, highlighting the need for innovative non-destructive testing (NDT) methods to use LMD for manufacture.