Spray forming combines the metallurgical benefits of fast cooling during solidification to produce low segregation, refined microstructures with the cost advantages associated with near net shape ...

Abstract: Spray forming is a new manufacturing process. The automated tool planning for this process is a nontrivial problem, especially for geometry-complicated parts consisting of multiple freeform ...

Kobe Steel Ltd. says it has created the world's strongest aluminum alloy, with a tensile strength of 780 MPa, using a proprietary spray forming process. Sample bars of 10 mm in diameter and 100 mm in ...

It has a tensile strength of 780 MPa. That's reportedly 10% higher than the 710 MPa of Weldalite, an aluminum-lithium alloy developed by Lockheed Martin Corp. and used in the external fuel tank of the ...

ABSTRACT: Among near net shape approaches, plasma spray deposition has its own advantages. It can perform ultrahigh temperature heating, produce components with layered compositions and structures, ...

Abstract: The spray forming process is a novel method of rapidly manufacturing tools and dies for stamping and injection operations. The process sprays molten tool steel from a set of arc spray guns ...

Satellite thruster nozzles are the first aerospace components to be manufactured using a new net-shape vacuum plasma spray-forming process. Montreal, Canada-based Advanced Coatings & Powders (AC&P) is ...

This project is designed to 3D model the Cold Spray process using mesh modification techniques. The mathematical model of Cold Spray is implemented to accurately modify the vertices of the mesh, ...