Expedited Award for Novel Research: Exploratory Research for New Unit Operations

新型工程材料的出现，如高- 高温、高强度金属及其合金;陶瓷;和 复合材料需要开发新的制造方法 如通过常规方法处理的工艺也可以 昂贵和/或困难。 新工艺的开发 需要了解每一个过程， 能力和局限性。 一些成功的过程 目前用于加工难加工材料的 两种或两种以上的混合物 流程. 该项目涉及一个 识别新制造工艺的方法 采用形态学分析的方法。 它涉及 二维矩阵的发展与基本类型的 能量沿着一个轴和材料上处理 其他. 矩阵中的框将被填充已知的 单位业务。 矩阵中的空白代表了潜在的新的 运营 这一领域的研究可以促进 新的和创新的工艺， 先进的材料。

The advent of new engineering materials such as high- temperature, high-strength metals and their alloys; ceramics; and composites necessitated the development of new manufacture processes as processing by conventional methods can be too expensive and/or difficult. The development of new processes requires knowledge of each of the processes with respect to their capabilities and limitaitons. Some of the sucessful processes used currently for processing difficult-to-process materials are hybrid in nature which involves a combination of two or more processes. This project deals with the development of a methodology for the identification of new manufacturing processes using the method of morphological analysis. It involves the development of two-dimensional matrices with the basic type of energy along one axis and the materials to be processed on the other. The boxes in the matrix will be filled in with the known unit operations. The gaps in the matrix represent potential new operations. Research in this area can lead to the development of new and innovative processing economically of both conventional and advanced materials.