Digital Qualification Platform for Advanced Alloy Components

在这个项目中，一个由冶金、机械工程和机器学习领域的世界专家组成的团队将合作建立一个用于添加剂制造(“3D打印”)的数字资格认证平台。添加剂制造(“AM”)有可能使各种先进部件的制造方式变得更好。它可以创造出比其他制造技术更轻、更复杂、更有功能的物体，而且它使用的材料比其他制造技术更先进，而且它可以使用更少的原材料，而且完全数字化，所以不需要工具。充分利用AM可以改变以更可持续的燃料为动力的低能源、低排放飞机和汽车的前景，并在电子产品、医疗植入物和许多其他市场创造新的机会。然而，AM面临着采用的主要障碍：设计最佳组件的成本，并毫无疑问地证明，只要需要，它就可以安全地工作。这在航空航天领域一直是一项挑战和费用，需要花费数百万美元进行昂贵的试验，但对于AM来说，这是一个特别的障碍，因为它是一种用数十亿个微小焊接建立部件的新技术。该项目旨在建立一个未来，在这个未来，新材料和部件完全通过计算手段设计和证明是安全的，节省数年的时间和数百万英镑，并加速航空航天和其他领域的创新。它将通过建立AM材料和部件的数字鉴定平台来实现这一点，包括软件包计算模型和世界级的实验设施，并通过在波音飞机试飞项目中建造的热交换部件的认证来展示该平台。一旦应用于AM，该平台将扩展到加速创新，降低成本，减少传统制造中的浪费。该项目现在还将创造46个高技能的新工作岗位，到2035年将创造超过2500个工作岗位。这个为期四年的项目将由总部位于牛津的高增长技术公司Alled领导，包括波音公司、AM硬件制造商雷尼绍、TWI有限公司、英国原子能管理局、帝国理工学院以及曼彻斯特大学和谢菲尔德大学。

In this project a team of world experts in metallurgy, mechanical engineering, and machine learning will collaborate to build a Digital Qualification Platform for Additive Manufacture ("3D printing").Additive Manufacture ("AM") has the potential to transform for the better the way a vast range of advanced components are manufactured. It can create objects that are lighter, more intricate and functional, and made from more advanced materials than other manufacturing technologies, and it can do so using less raw material and completely digitally, so no tooling is required. Full use of AM could transform prospects for lower-energy, lower-emission aeroplanes and cars, powered by more sustainable fuels, as well as creating new opportunities in electronics, medical implants, and many other markets.However, AM faces a major barrier to adoption: the cost of designing an optimal component, and proving beyond doubt that can do its job safely for as long as it is required. This has always been a challenge and an expense in aerospace, requiring many millions spent on expensive trials, but it is a particular hurdle for AM, as a novel technology which builds up a component from billions of tiny welds.This project aims to build a future in which new materials and components are designed and proved safe entirely by computational means, saving years of time and millions of pounds, as well as accelerating innovation in aerospace and elsewhere. It will do this by building a Digital Qualification Platform for AM materials and components, including software-packaged computational models and a world-class experimental facility, and demonstrating the Platform through the certification of a heat exchange component built during the project for test flight on a Boeing aircraft.Once applied to AM, the Platform will then be extended to speed innovation, decrease costs, and reduce waste in traditional manufacture. The Project will also create 46 highly-skilled new jobs now and over 2,500 by 2035\.The four-year project will be led by Alloyed, a high-growth technology business based in Oxford, and include Boeing, Renishaw, the manufacturer of AM hardware, TWI Ltd, the UK Atomic Energy Authority, Imperial College, and the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield.