Radical Approaches In New materials Science and Engineering (RAiSE): building trust and transparency through virtual certification and digital design

纤维增强金属基复合材料在航天和航空航天等高增长工业部门有着广泛的应用，这些部门是英国经济增长和出口产业战略的关键。这些轻质材料在直接更换部件时可节省30%的重量，在系统设计可优化的情况下可节省高达70%的重量。英国在技术和从原材料到最终产品的核心供应链方面拥有强大的历史。TISICS是全球唯一的综合纤维和金属复合材料制造商，在为广泛的应用开发部件和加工技术方面拥有丰富的经验，包括：-航空发动机：更轻、更高工作温度的部件减少燃料消耗，从而减少二氧化碳排放。-飞机起落架：更轻、更高硬度的齿轮减少燃料消耗，钛复合材料提供镀铬或镀镉钢材的替代品。30%的潜在重量节省相当于每个单通道每年340吨二氧化碳，或全球机队每年超过200万吨二氧化碳。-卫星压力容器：更轻、近净形状的推进剂和增压储罐将系统质量减少一半，这将有利于星座卫星。-空间机器人和结构：更轻、更紧凑的系统是空间探索和空间服务的关键。-能源：更轻、更坚固的蒸汽涡轮机将提高能源产生效率，减少排放。-汽车：从长远来看，MMC提供能够减少内燃机排放或电动汽车续航里程的更轻系统。为了使这项技术工业化，需要进行重大开发，以解决制造过程的每个阶段的自动化问题。自动化将是系统机械化、用于过程控制和过程监控的数字传感器以及人工智能和机器学习的组合，为零部件提供优化的设计和加工规则。空间和航空航天安全关键部件的制造将需要强有力的过程中监测和记录，其中任何嵌入的缺陷都将具有挑战性，并且在生产线结束时检查和解决成本高昂。TISICS将确保开发与客户的产品保证需求保持一致。TISICS将与曼彻斯特大学和德比大学合作开发这项技术。这建立在两所大学现有研究活动的基础上，使TISICS能够接触到世界级的研究人员和中小企业无法接触到的尖端研究设备。这个。MMC技术的增长将通过更多的大学研究来加速，这种经验将被纳入教学计划，为未来培养工程师。大学和TISICS与空中客车和劳斯莱斯等工业初级企业之间的研究联系，将有助于它们在未来将这些材料转化为工业供应链。该项目建立在TISICS 30年的综合经验和最近在TISICS实现纤维生产过程自动化的成功基础上。该项目有助于保持英国在先进材料开发和工业化方面的领先地位，从而加快更轻材料的引入，从而减少未来的排放。

Fibre reinforced Metal Matrix Composites have extensive applications in high growth industrial sectors such as space and aerospace which are key to the UK's economic growth and industrial strategy for exports. These lightweight materials offer 30% weight savings in direct replacement parts and up to 70% weight saving where system designs can be optimised. The UK has a strong history in the technology and the core supply chain from raw materials to final products. TISICS is the only integrated fibre and metal composite manufacturer worldwide and has extensive experience in developing component and process technologies for a wide range of applications including:-Aero-engines: Lighter, higher operating temperature components reduce fuel burn and hence CO2 emissions.-Aircraft landing gear: Lighter, higher stiffness gear reduces fuel burn and titanium composites offer an alternative to chrome or cadmium plated steels. 30% potential weight saving equates to 340 tonnes CO2 per year per single aisle or over 2 million tonnes across the world fleet per year.-Satellite pressure vessel: lighter, near net shape propellant and pressurant tanks reduce system mass and half lead time which will be advantageous for constellation satellites.-Space robotics and structures: Lighter, more compact systems are key to space exploration and in-space servicing.-Energy: Lighter, more robust steam turbines will increase energy generation efficiency, reducing emissions.-Automotive: in the longer term with high production volume economics, MMCs offer lighter systems capable of reducing emissions from combustion engines or range extension for electric vehicles. In order to industrialise this technology significant development is required to address automation of each stage of the manufacturing process. Automation will be a combination of mechanisation of systems, digital sensors for process control and in-process monitoring alongside artificial-intelligence and machine learning to provide optimised design and processing rules for components. Manufacture of safety critical components for space and aerospace will require robust in-process monitoring and recording where any embedded defects would be challenging and costly to inspect and resolve at the end of line. TISICS will ensure the development is aligned to customer product assurance needs. TISICS will work with The University of Manchester and Derby University to develop this technology. This builds on existing research activity with both Universities and enables TISICS access to world class researchers and cutting edge research equipment beyond the reach of an SME. The. Growth of MMC technology will be accelerated through greater University research and this experience feeds into teaching programmes to train engineers for the future. The research links between the Universities and TISICS to Industrial Primes such as Airbus and Rolls-Royce will help their uptake of these materials in the future as the technology is transitioned into industrial supply chains.The project builds on 30 years composite experience and recent successes automating the fibre production processes at TISICS. This project helps maintain the UK at the forefront of advanced materials development and industrialisation, thereby accelerating the introduction of lighter materials and hence reductions in emissions for the future.