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Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Materials for the Additive Manufacture of High Temperature Components in Power Generation (OXIGEN)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

OXIGEN will combine leading-edge European expertise in the manufacture of specialist powder alloys (Mechanical Alloying), knowledge of niche high-temperature materials and capabilities in additive manufacturing. This will produce an integrated, world-leading capability to directly manufacture from powder to part custom-designed, best-in-class high temperature alloys for power generation component ...
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High Power, high Reliability offshore wind technology (HIPRWIND)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

The aim of the HiPRwind project is to develop and test new solutions for very large offshore wind turbines at an industrial scale. The project addresses critical issues of offshore WT technology such as extreme reliability, remote maintenance and grid integration with particular emphasis on floating wind turbines, where weight and size limitations of onshore designs can be overcome.HiPRWind will t ...
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Advanced condition monitoring system for the assessment of wind turbines rotating parts (CMSWIND)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,

Current wind turbine condition monitoring methodologies can be time-consuming and a costly process and fail to achieve the reliability and operational efficiency required by the industry. For these reasons existing vibration-based Condition Monitoring System (CMS) usually fail to detect defects until they become critical.This project will show the applicability of the CMS enabling the prompt detec ...
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High Strength Aluminium Alloy parts by Selective Laser Melting (Hi-StA-Part)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The Hi-StA-Part project aims to demonstrate the viability to produce aerospace grade aluminium parts using Direct Manufacture (DM) – specifically the process of Selective Laser Melting (SLM). The project will demonstrate that components and parts can be manufactured with a significant weight reduction, to the required mechanical properties for aerospace applications.The strategy of the project is ...
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Innovative Manufacturing of complex Ti sheet components (INMA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"The INMA project aims at developing an intelligent knowledge-based (KB) flexible manufacturing technology for titanium shaping that will lead to drastically reduce current aircraft development costs incurred by the fabrication of complex titanium sheet components with a minimal environmental impact. In particular, this project aims at strengthening European aircraft industry competitiveness, by t ...
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Fibre Reinforced Composite Reflectors for Concentrated Solar Power Plants (CompoSol)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

The principle of concentrated solar power (CSP) is to reflect and focus solar energy collected from a wide area on to one point, using the thermal energy to produce steam or a hot liquid in order to transfer or store the energy.For this proposal, the solar collector will be made of carbon fibre composite material. This can be designed to be stiff (maintaining its position) whilst being light weigh ...
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High Temperature Electronics (HiTME)

Start date: Jan 4, 2011, End date: Apr 3, 2014,

The migration of electronic control units from the engine fan-case to the core would be considered a huge benefit for the engine designer, reducing interconnection complexity and system weight, simplifying assembly and maintenance and providing key nacelle aerodynamic and bypass flow improvements.However, today’s engine control electronics, typically mounted on the engine fan-case, operates to a m ...
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Novel tooling for composites curing under microwave heating (MU-TOOL)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

The aim of the project Mu-Tool is to develop an alternative method of microwave processing of composites, to enable the rapid and low-cost production of composite parts. The new process will result in an increase in energy efficiency, production efficiency, reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and production costs.The principle of this technology will be the use of ceramic tooling which is transp ...
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Development of an automated spot weld inspection device for safe vehicle repair (SpotTrack)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

There are over three thousand spot welds in a typical car. When a car is repaired the spot welding parameters can be different as the mass production machinery used in manufacture can no longer be used. The repairer often is not an expert at inspecting spot welds. Assured reliability of the spot weld is paramount, since the integrity of the spot welds is vital to the crash performance of a car and ...
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Offshore Wind Turbine Towers – A Quicker, Cheaper Flange Supply Route (RingMan)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

There is a tendency to higher power offshore wind turbines, leading to larger turbine towers (5m diameter and greater) and a requirement for large diameter connection flanges between the tower sections and between the tower and foundation transition pieces. Currently, forged rings are specified, with inherently high cost and few suppliers worldwide. This leads to long lead times and higher costs f ...
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High reliability electronics assembly and encapsulation for extreme service environments using micro friction stir welding (MicroStir)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The integrity and reliability of electronic assemblies is critical to our every day lives whether they are used in domestic, transport, communications, industrial or security applications. The European electronics assembly industry faces many issues with achieving high quality joints at the time of manufacture and also once the assemblies are in service. Even if a high quality joint is manufacture ...
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DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL INSPECTION TECHNIQUES FOR TRAIN AXLES (AxleInspect)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The structural integrity of wheel sets used in rolling stock is of great importance to the rail industry and its customers. A number of rail accidents have been directly related to the failure of train axles, leading to increased demands for their inspection and maintenance. Visual inspection and Magnetic Particle Inspection are the current standard practices used for manual non-destructive testin ...
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Continuous Reliable Advanced Novel Efficient Structural Health Monitoring system for crane inspection applications (CRANESInspect)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

There is a vital need for systems to continuously monitor the structural health of the cranes. Cranes are of the most common machinery used in industry. Cranes of any type are used for the manipulation of loads, depending on load specifications as well as task requirements, accessibility and cost. They are installed in industrial plants, construction sites, shipyards, ports, etc.In 2008, there wa ...
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Development of an in-process quality assurance system for friction stir welding (SignaStir)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2013,

The SignaStir project will develop an effective in-process quality assurance system for the inspection of friction stir welds (FSW) predominantly used in the manufacture of aluminium rolling stock and marine vessels. The SignaStir system will determine the unique and holistic weld quality ‘signature’. There is currently no capable inspection system available on the market either as a stand-alone u ...
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COMPArative evaluation of NDT techniques for high-quality bonded composite REpairs (COMPARE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"Adhesively bonded composite repairs exhibit significant advantages in terms of mechanical efficiency compared to those effected using mechanical fasteners. However they are at the same time extremely sensitive to process parameter variations. Small deviations against the repair specifications and subsequent flaws, could lead to disproportionally larger consequences to the final mechanical perform ...
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