Machining of Ceramics

hockeneec -9903838本项目是欧共体研究中心-小型企业协同研发计划的一部分。合作伙伴是北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校（UNC）精密计量中心和第三波系统公司，这是一家总部位于明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯的小公司，为金属加工行业提供仿真技术。该中心和小公司将共同开发科技基地，以加工和模拟陶瓷材料的切割。这些结果将有助于制造商为其产品生产陶瓷组件。该中心将在精密加工和计量、材料表征和有限元分析等领域贡献其专业知识。Third Wave将为该中心提供该项目所需的软件，并提供培训，作为对该项目实物贡献的一部分。第三波有丰富的经验建模金属切割操作。然而，Third Wave并没有模拟氮化硅等陶瓷加工的经验。合作研发将使Third Wave有机会直接参与研究工作，开发用于陶瓷工件（如氮化硅）的加工模拟软件包。这项工作是联合国军司令部和第三次浪潮之间两年多讨论的结果，目的是建立一项联合合作努力。人们的兴趣一直很高，而且将继续很高，但来自小公司和大学的障碍已经足够高，阻碍了任何进展。诸如缺乏财政资源和人员可用性等常见问题使我们无法在可行的研究计划方面取得任何进展。该中心的两家附属公司卡特彼勒（Caterpillar）和康明斯（Cummins）对陶瓷加工建模表示了兴趣。两家公司都为该中心的陶瓷加工项目做出了贡献。

HockenEEC-9903838This project is funded as a part of the EEC initiative on Research Centers - Small Firms Collaborative R&D. The cooperating partners are the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC) - Center for Precision Metrology, and Third Wave Systems, Inc., a small firm headquartered in Minneapolis, MN that provides simulation technology for the metal processing industry. The Center and the small firm will jointly develop the science and technology base to machine and model the cutting of ceramic materials. These results will be useful to help manufacturers produce ceramic components for their products. The Center will contribute its expertise in the areas of precision machining and metrology, materials characterization, and finite element analysis. Third Wave will provide the Center with its software for this project and provide training as part of their in-kind contribution to the project. Third Wave has extensive experience with modeling metal cutting operations. However, Third Wave does not have experience with modeling the machining of ceramics such as silicon nitride. The collaborative R&D will afford Third Wave the opportunity to be directly involved in the research effort to develop a machining simulation package for ceramic workpieces such as silicon nitride. The work is an outgrowth of over two years of discussion between UNC and Third Wave to establish a joint collaborative effort. The interest has always been and continues to be very high, but the hurdles from both the small firm and the university have been sufficiently high to prevent any progress. The usual problems such as lack of financial resources and personnel availability have kept us from realizing any advances towards a viable research program. Two of the Center's affiliates, Caterpillar and Cummins, have expressed an interest in the modeling of ceramic machining. Both companies have contributed to the Center's ceramic machining project.