New volume production casting process for AMC reinforced components.

AMC 增强部件的新批量生产铸造工艺。

• 批准号: 103764
• 金额: $ 126.03万
• 依托单位: FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=103764
• 关键词: New; volume; production; casting; process

Ford Motor Company (Ford), Composite Metal Technology (CMT) and M Wright &Sons (MWS) are collaborating on an Innovate UK funded project to develop a new manufacturing process for the production of aluminium castings reinforced with inserts manufactured from long-fibre aluminium matrix composite (AMC) materials, providing localised reinforcement and facilitating weight reduction. The project will deliver a new gravity die casting process for AMC-reinforced components, enabling higher production volumes at improved quality and reduced cost compared to the current sand casting process. MWS will support this development with a novel 3D fibre preform design concept, manufactured using a new adaptive weaving system that will allow flexible transverse reinforcement of preforms, modified according to component performance requirements. These developments will be demonstrated via the manufacture of a redesigned prototype powertrain bracket, with reduced weight and improved stiffness versus the standard aluminium component. The project will address one of the remaining inhibitors to widespread adoption of AMC reinforcement for aluminium components, and unlock the technology potential for customers in a broad range of industrial sectors.

福特汽车公司 (Ford)、复合金属技术 (CMT) 和 M Wright & Sons (MWS) 正在合作开展英国创新基金 (Innovate UK) 资助的项目，开发一种新的制造工艺，用于生产采用长纤维铝基复合材料 (AMC) 材料制成的嵌件增强的铝铸件，提供局部增强并促进减重。该项目将为 AMC 增强部件提供一种新的重力压铸工艺，与当前的砂型铸造工艺相比，能够提高产量、提高质量并降低成本。 MWS 将通过新颖的 3D 纤维预成型件设计概念来支持这一开发，该概念采用新型自适应编织系统制造，该系统将允许对预成型件进行灵活的横向加固，并根据组件性能要求进行修改。这些发展将通过重新设计的原型动力总成支架的制造来证明，与标准铝部件相比，该支架的重量减轻并提高了刚度。该项目将解决铝部件广泛采用 AMC 增强材料的剩余障碍之一，并为广泛工业领域的客户释放技术潜力。