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Theatre : Sustainability and Circular Economy
Currently in the UK aerospace manufacturing industry, buy-to-fly ratios can be as high as 9:1 for titanium alloy components. The industry produces considerable amounts of machining swarf and there are increasing amounts of out-of-specification additive manufacturing powder that are now being stockpiled. In this talk, disruptive technology that uses field-assisted sintering technology (FAST) to create near net shape billets or final components will be presented.
With emerging UK supply chain partners, it is expected that a sustainable circular economy of aerospace waste can be used across defence and automotive industries without any significant changes to current infrastructure. The solid-state FAST technology has been combined with downstream hot forging using standard hammer presses to create as-forged parts from waste in two simple steps (and termed as FAST-forge). In addition FAST titanium alloy billets are easier to close-die forge – showing superplastic forging characteristics.
The FAST technology is also being exploited to create chemically-graded billets (termed FAST-DB) where site specific alloy chemistries can be engineered. The diffusion bonded regions show excellent structural integrity and provides a new approach for the recycling of different titanium alloy powders and machining waste.
The panel surrounding Lord Redesdale is composed of at least one member of the three major parties (Labour, Conservatives, and Liberal Democrats). Topic and panellists to be confirmed close to…
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