Development of a highly efficient & commercially available vibro-peening system

表面工程通过提高产品质量、性能和生命周期成本在高价值制造中发挥着关键作用。喷丸强化是一种成熟的表面工程方法，用于将压应力施加到零件的表面层中，从而提高耐用性并延长使用寿命。不幸的是，喷丸是一种轻微的工艺，限制了其对增加复杂工程部件的有效性，特别是那些通过增材制造生产的部件。VibroPeen项目将开发一种新工艺，该工艺具有成本效益，灵活性，易于自动化，能够实现零件的高产量，包括增材制造生产的零件，从而快速，在未来5年内，在关键的高性能工程领域（包括赛车运动、航空航天、航天领域）以及更广泛的增材制造用户群体中广泛商业化。这一重要的发展将提供一种可靠的、具有成本效益的自动化精加工工艺，可应用于各种组件，其中许多组件目前尚未处理。延长其使用寿命将为最终用户带来显著的经济效益，并提高安全性和可持续性。该项目解决了英国企业采用更高生产率、可持续性、知识密集型工艺的迫切需求，此外，还在英国退欧后的世界中展示了全球技术领导力。

Surface engineering plays a critical role in high-value manufacturing by improving product quality, performance, and life-cycle costs. Shot peening is an established surface engineering method used to impart compressive stresses into the surface layer of a part, thereby improving the durability and extending the service life. Unfortunately, shot peening is a line-of-slight process limiting its effectiveness for increasing complex engineering components, particularly those produced by additive manufacturing.The VibroPeen project a new process will be developed which is cost-effective, flexible, and readily automated, enabling high throughput of parts, including those produced by additive manufacturing, leading to rapid, widespread commercialization within key high-performance engineering sectors (including motorsport, aerospace, space sectors) as well the wider additive manufacturing user community within the next 5 years. This important development will provide a reliable, cost-effective, automated finishing process, which can be applied to a wide range of components, many of which are currently untreated. Extending their service life will yield significant economic benefits to end-users as well as increasing safety and sustainability.The project addresses the urgent requirement for UK companies to adopt higher productivity, sustainable, knowledge-intensive processes and, moreover, show global technical leadership in a post-Brexit world.