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AMRC with Boeing Board Meeting in Nagoya at OSG Corporation

AMRC with Boeing Board Meeting in Nagoya at OSG Corporation

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AMRC with Boeing Board Meeting in Nagoya at OSG Corporation
AMRC with Boeing Board Meeting in Nagoya at OSG Corporation

AMRC with Boeing Board Meeting in Nagoya at OSG Corporation

Thursday and Wednesday, 18th, May, 2017

The nice view of the center of Nagoya (Japan)

OSG Group hosted on the 18th May the AMRC with Boeing Board Meeting in its premises in Nagoya.

Representatives of the biggest aerospace companies and their suppliers came from all the corner of the Earth.

Boeing, Airbus, Rolls Royce, Starrag Eckert, Messier Bugatti Dowty, BAE Systems, DELCAM, OSG, D4S Group, MetsoftPro, Sandvik, Maegerle, Spirit Aerospace, KCT Group, DMG-Mori, McLaren, Renishaw, StarGB, Techicut, SECOTools top managers came from all over the world to join this important annual event.

The Board decided the new strategies for the next period. As usual, in the evergreen spirit of the AMRC, this occasion was a fantastic opportunity to empower relationships and business opportunities. 

The event has been magisterially organised by the OSG Group.

The meeting offered the opportunity to visit the incredible production line of OSG and some breathtaking corners of Japan.

FERRARI FXX Program Mugello Circuit

FERRARI FXX Program Mugello Circuit

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FERRARI FXX Program Mugello Circuit
FERRARI FXX Program Mugello Circuit
FERRARI FXX Program Mugello Circuit
FERRARI FXX Program Mugello Circuit

Finished the project of a new astonishing hypercar

Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante announced the successful conclusion of the project of a revolutionary Hypercar

15 December 2021

Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante presented the result of a new innovation collaboration programs to develop and test a super powerful hypercar.

The project overall concept was the integration of a new property concept of super-high performance powertrain and race chassis in am astonishing design car to build a reference in the hyper sport sector. The target was to show the reference in sport handling and aggressive design, targeting also both the performance on one hand and, on the other hand, to widely disseminate a serious solution for the human health and the environment preservation. The activity approach, as in all our creations, was to kept into the account from the critical rare materials savings to the test on the road for final homologation to the commercialisation of the concept and the product.

The Team was based on key technicians with long crosssectorial experiences in the automotive and motorsport fields.

Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante, automotive mechanical engineer from Politecnico of Torino, 25 years of experience in the aerospace and motorsport sectors, developing advanced powertrain solutions, materials and technologies for military and race applications. From 12 years in FIAT Research Center, to active partnership with the main OEM like Ferrari F1, Porsche, BMW, Mercedes, McLaren, Nissan in the Board of AMRC with Boeing, Airbus and other prestigious R&D Institutions all around the World.

Dr. Eng. Marco Muzio, automotive mechanical engineer, 30 years experience in Motorsport, spacing from Rally World Championship with Lancia, Ford, Kia, Citroen, to Formula1 with Ferrari, to motorbike with Ducati and Yamaha, official teams.
www.marcomuzio.it

Dr. Christian Crocco, entrepreneur,  start-ups and technology companies in the world of artificial intelligence and blockchain.

Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante, in the Motorsport field, already anticipated the planning of the FIA (International Automobile Federation) of 5 years building in 2017, in collaboration with EFESTO, the first hybrid rally race car for Ice racing in the World, which was the most extreme bench test for the electric technology. The car, despite races carried out at the critical temperatures of -25ºC for the electric powertrain, won immediately the 2018 championship ICE CHALLENGE in the innovative powertrain category, showing performances and reliability never seen for a brand new concept of car. The race car was equipped with a V6 3lt engine characterised by 340HP and an electric unit sporting 200kW. The total power of the car was 610HP, 960kg of weight with an overall consumption reduction of 15% and pollution reduction of 23%, in comparison with the best in class competitors.

The expected car targeted performances:

V8 bi-turbo engine, capable of 1100 hp and of a torque of 1300 Nm directly to the rear wheels through a specifically developed six-speed sequential gearbox and a (optional) future generation integrated electric engine, inverter, batteries and complex electronic management that will push extra 1000 HP and 1000Nm to the front wheels.The Hypercar will destroy the 0-60 mph in only 1,5s seconds, reaching the speed of 250 mph (400km/h auto limited), also thanks to the four wheel drive traction and thekerb weight of just 1350 kg. These performances will be achieved using aerospace light materials and technology and will permit to reduce the environmental impact of 35%. 

The incredible power will be controlled by brand new carbon-ceramic brakes concept, that, in collaboration with the electric engine, specifically developed, exploiting Motorsport technology, will permit to stop from 300 km/h to 0 in only 6 seconds and recover a big amount of energy that will be used to accelerate the car to the next turn, like it is happening in Formula 1 hers.

The car will also sport a range of 70 km in the centre of the cities in full electric mode, zero emissions.

TRAM 2014 worldwide conference at IMTS Chicago

TRAM 2014 worldwide conference at IMTS Chicago

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TRAM 2014 worldwide conference at IMTS Chicago
TRAM 2014 worldwide conference at IMTS Chicago
TRAM 2014 worldwide conference at IMTS Chicago
TRAM 2014 worldwide conference at IMTS Chicago
TRAM 2014 worldwide conference at IMTS Chicago

TRAM 2014 worldwide conference at IMTS Chicago

Wednesday, 10, September, 2014

Dr. Nickolas Ridgway and Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante participated at the International Conference TRAM (Trend in Advanced Machining, Manufacturing and Materials) in Chicago at the IMTS 2014, the famous Machine Tool  and Robotic fear in USA. They presented a new approach on the manufacturing of high quality components for motorsport and aeronautic sector, based on a life cycle approach. This permits to achieve better, faster and less pollutant components with respect to the previous technologies. Some of the technologies and results were developed and tested in the European Funded Project REFORM, dealing with advanced composites materials.

 

TRAM Conference 2009 – Sheffield

TRAM Conference 2009 – Sheffield

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TRAM Conference 2009 – Sheffield
TRAM Conference 2009 – Sheffield
TRAM Conference 2009 – Sheffield
TRAM Conference 2009 – Sheffield
TRAM Conference 2009 – Sheffield

TRAM Conference 2009 – Sheffield

Invited Keynote lecture at TRAM 2009 worldwide Conference

Wednesday, 9, September, 2009

 New methodologies for development of high efficient Machining of difficult to cut materials

Authors:

Sergio Durante, Mauro Comoglio

1D4S Motorsport, Mar Adriatico 2, 38612 Granadilla de Abona, Spain, 

2DIAD , Str. Della Praia 12/C, I-10090 Buttigliera Alta (TO) Italy, 

In Sheffield at the AMRC with Boeing facilities, Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante presented a paper on high efficient machining.

The article and the keynote focuses on the automotive and aerospace industries. In these industries the need for enhanced materials performance is necessary if they are to remain competitive in global terms. Unfortunately the material properties, which make them so attractive to the aerospace and automotive industry can also make them difficult to machine. This paper will discuss integrated developments in machining techniques and cutting tools, which are emerging to cope with difficult to cut materials.

Introduction

Due to the increasingly competitive nature of the commercial aircraft and automotive markets, environmental issues and affordability are the prime market drivers.

In the aerospace sector, the implication of this is a market requirement for faster, cheaper, quieter aircraft. There is also a need to reduce operational costs by producing, more economical and reliable aircraft with an increased operating life. To meet these requirements the aircraft designers are producing larger, thinner complex (monolithic) parts, which can be assembled more easily without the recourse to jigs and fixtures. This is forcing manufacturers to consider using more exotic alloys, composites and mixed metal matrices, with a large impact on machining technology. Similar trends are occurring in the military aircraft sector where, in addition to affordability, stealth technology is forcing the use of new materials and design techniques.

In addition to the technological issues the aerospace industry is now moving towards the model of the automotive with the large OEMs concentrating on large system integration with component manufacture moving into the supply chain. This is having an impact as the companies now machining difficult to cut materials are unaware of the materials research being carried out at the OEM level and they can be faced with a machining problem on a material where they have little previous experience.

In the automotive sector new products now face stringent economic and environmental demands. In Europe emission legislation and the demands for higher performance from smaller engines have together driven the development of diesel engine technology over the past 10 years.

Invited keynote address speech at AIRTEC 2007

Invited keynote address speech at AIRTEC 2007

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Invited keynote address speech at AIRTEC 2007
Invited keynote address speech at AIRTEC 2007
Invited keynote address speech at AIRTEC 2007

Invited keynote address speech at AIRTEC 2007

Thursday, 8, November, 2007

Integrated development of high performance tools for efficient machining of difficult to cut materials in automotive and aerospace applications

Authors:

Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante – DIAD (IT)

Prof. Keith Ridgway – AMRC with Boeing

Dr. Eng. Mauro Comoglio – Centro Ricerche FIAT (IT)

On October 25th, Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante presented a Keynote Address in the Frankfurt AIRTEC2007 Plenary Session International Conference.

Airbus 380 – Courtesy of Airbus, Our Partner in the AFFIX Project:

Aligning, Holding and Fixing Flexible and Difficult to Handle Components

The speech focuses on the automotive, aerospace industries. In all these industries the need for enhanced materials performance is necessary if they are to remain competitive in global terms. The aerospace industry is currently under-going the changes originally experienced in the automotive industry with increasing acceptance that the OEMs are large system integrators and increasing use of sub-contractors.

This approach has a wide-ranging impact on future developments as the OEMs are pushing research down the supply chain. This creates the risk of creating a major discontinuity between the performance requirements of the OEMs and the manufacturing capabilities of the supply chain. As the OEMs require increasing performance it is essential that the supply chain have the manufacturing capability to cope with the enhanced material properties required.  This discontinuity is addressed in this proposal as new production processes will be developed to cope with the new materials and also the major design changes occurring in the industries considered.

The aerospace and automotive factories of the future will involve jig less assembly and more responsive manufacturing processes. 

This will include increased flexibility, including intelligent work-holding devises and fixtures, adaptive machining, active damping. These will be required to reduce manufacturing costs and increase the accuracy required for jig less assembly.

Al of these aspects have a major impact on machining tool.

Gala dinner FAST 2016

Gala dinner FAST 2016

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Gala dinner FAST 2016
Gala dinner FAST 2016
Gala dinner FAST 2016
Gala dinner FAST 2016

Gala dinner FAST 2016

Saturday 26 November 2016

In the astonishingly beautiful environment of the Mare Nostrum Resort of Playa de las Americas, in Spain, it was held the “Gala Solidario FAST”, which is the important gala dinner organised by the association of the entrepreneurs FAST.
The Forum of Friends of the South of Tenerife, formed by a group of people and groups, aims to dynamize from the social, cultural and tourist point of view the southern region of the island, through the organization of non-profit acts and for charitable purposes.

The event was a success with 700 participants, music, shows, including some international vedettes like Los Rios and Carmen Mota with her flamenco dancers.
The collected money (200.000 Euros) have been used to buy a new advanced rescue truck to the corp of firemen.


Pictures: Dr Hugo Ise, former President of Rotary Club, Dr. Teresa Ten, current President of the Rotary and Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante

Meeting with the Imperial College of London

Meeting with the Imperial College of London

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Meeting with the Imperial College of London
Meeting with the Imperial College of London
Meeting with the Imperial College of London
Meeting with the Imperial College of London
Meeting with the Imperial College of London

Meeting with the Imperial College of London

Tuesday, 13 September, 2016

In the always dynamic environment of London, it was held the meeting between Prof. Jianguo Lin, director of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Imperial College of London and Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante.
Some high tech industrial projects are already running between D4S Motorsport and this important UK institution. Target of the meeting was to explore future possible collaboration in the field of the advanced engineering, with a special attention to application of innovative manufacturing process for the production of a future generation of low-inertia powertrain components.

In the same days the meeting of the international project MMTECH was held at the Imperial College. This project relates with the setting up of a new concept of additive manufacturing process for aerospace components.

Industries, research centres and companies from UK, France, Italy and Spain are involved in this international collaboration.
MMTech will develop technologies and methodologies to process the gamma-Titanium material, which have the potential to save time and cost across the aircraft lifecycle (design, production, maintenance, overhaul, repair and retrofit), including certification aspects. It will target the integration of new and novel materials in aero-engine and aircraft structural components.

New materials for high temperature parts – MMTECH project

New materials for high temperature parts – MMTECH project

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New materials for high temperature parts – MMTECH project
New materials for high temperature parts – MMTECH project

New materials for high temperature parts – MMTECH project

Wednesday, 8 June, 2016

An MMTECH dissemination event at the famous race Cesana -Sestriere, in Italy, valid for the European Championship of Hill Climbing

New materials for high temperature parts – MMTECH project

D4S Motorsport is a core member of the Consortium MMTECH, a multinational coalition of enterprises focused on the development and application of a new generation of materials for high temperature applications (turbochargers, aerospace turbines, rockets).

The MMTech project is focusing on the development of technologies and methodologies which have the potential to save cost and time across the whole aircraft lifecycle, including design, production, maintenance, overhaul, repair and retrofit. It will investigate the steps needed to certify the new technologies for use on planes. The scientific target is based on the sustainable introduction of titanium aluminide alloys in the gamma phase, known as gamma titanium aluminides or γ-TiAl. 

This is a promising material for aerospace (but also high-end automotive) applications because is performs well at the high temperatures found in engines and is lighter than the nickel alloys which are currently in use. However, it is extremely brittle at low temperatures and so is hard to work with.

There are several bottlenecks to the general introduction of γ-TiAl in aerospace and automotive components. The various alloys are currently expensive and are hard to obtain, so machining large block of material is unattractive. Making parts using near-net techniques such a rapid manufacture (RM) uses less material, but comes with its own problems. Powder properties can vary across suppliers and even between batches, meaning that process parameters need to be set for each new build. Near net parts also need machining, but because γ-TiAl is brittle at low temperatures, it is extremely hard to finish-machine the components without producing cracks. MMTECH will develop methods of creating stable, consistent powder batches and investigate adaptive manufacturing techniques which can automatically vary deposition and machining parameters based on information gained during previous parts of the process chain. It will also look into ways of softening the material during processing using lasers to reduce cracking.

Specific advanced tools will be used for the new approach, based on integration of experimental testing and multi-scale modeling. Multi-scale modelling techniques will be applied to the manufacturing route to predict the inherent material properties of the γ-TiAl parts produced with RM and to optimise the laser-assisted machining process for high performance and high-quality production.

These goals will be achieved by meeting a number of technology challenges:

    •    The production of powders with stable physical properties

    •    The reduction of rapid manufacturing costs

    •    The improvement of machining processes

    •    The development of multi-scale models of the manufacturing process chain

Official project link:

http://mmtech-nology.com/default

Picture: one of the D4S Motorsport cars during the event.

This kind of broadcasted events are the best opportunities to tests and promote innovative solutions, at the same time.

Building the basis for future collaborations with the famous City University of Hong Kong

Building the basis for future collaborations with the famous City University of Hong Kong

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Building the basis for future collaborations with the famous City University of Hong Kong
Building the basis for future collaborations with the famous City University of Hong Kong
Building the basis for future collaborations with the famous City University of Hong Kong
Building the basis for future collaborations with the famous City University of Hong Kong

Building the basis for future collaborations with the famous City University of Hong Kong In the fascinating environment of the always dynamic Hong Kong was held the first important meeting between the worldwide famous City University of Hong Kong, represented by Prof. Jian Lu, Executive Vice President of Research and Technology, and Dr. Sergio Durante, Executive Vice President of the multinational company D4S Group.

The topic of the meeting was focused on the future collaboration between the two institutions. The fields of interest discussed are mainly related to the application of advanced materials to the future mobility automotive sector, with a particular interest on a novel generation of energy absorbers, ultra high strength nano-structured metals and innovative surface engineering treatment.

The City University of Hong Kong, in the Department of Advanced Structural Materials sport a state of the art equipped laboratory and top level researchers.

The number and the quality of the publications permit the University to be ranked among the best-in-class worldwide.

More in details the Primary mission of the Centre for Advanced Structural Materials of Prof. Jian Lu is to develop a future generation of materials scientists, mechanics of materials researchers and design engineers to bring advance fundamentals and technologies in advanced structural materials.

Innovative solutions are created for different key industrial sectors, such as the biomedical, the automotive, the aerospace, and the sustainable energy.

The Centre’s objectives are to build a common research platform to attracts various members in the field of mechanics of advanced structural and functional material. Technology transfer is created by working with national and international leading companies; training top level multi-disciplinary researchers for the region; developing high value-added products to support economic developments of Hong Kong and the Pearl Delta Region.

The current major research areas are:

•    Prestressed engineering materials and devices

•    Advanced Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMGs) and Multicomponent Metallic Alloys

•    New Advanced Composites

•    Radiation Damage in Reactor Materials

•    Integration of advanced structural materials in product design

The new materials under development in the Prof. Jian Lu Centre for Advanced Structural Material, show high potential of application in the future electric and hybrid cars, that represent exactly the focus of the current business of D4S Motorsport The two organizations found a lot of complementarity points that will converge in the joint participations to both industrial and government high tech Asian and European projects, where the City University of Hong Kong will bring in the material technologies while D4S Motorsport will develop the manufacturing and extensive automotive testing of parts.

The modern architecture sport by the City University of Hong Kong, which is ranked one of the best universities Worldwide

Picture: Prof. Jian Lu, Executive Vice President of the Research & Technology at the City University of Hong Kong with Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante, Executive Vice President of the D4S Group. 
The Hong Kong University.

2016 Advanced Manufacturing Research Center Board Meeting held in Barcelona (ES)

2016 Advanced Manufacturing Research Center Board Meeting held in Barcelona (ES)

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2016 Advanced Manufacturing Research Center Board Meeting held in Barcelona (ES)
2016 Advanced Manufacturing Research Center Board Meeting held in Barcelona (ES)

2016 Advanced Manufacturing Research Center Board Meeting held in Barcelona (ES)

Thursday, 12, May, 2016

The first semester Board Meeting of the AMRC with Boeing was held at the beautiful Claris Hotel in Barcelona center, on Thursday 12 May.

Representatives of the biggest aerospace companies and their suppliers came from all the corner of the Earth.

Boeing, Airbus, Rolls Royce, Starrag Eckert, Messier Bugatti Dowty, BAE Systems, DELCAM, OSG, D4S Motorsport, MetsoftPro, Sandvik, Maegerle, Spirit Aerospace, KCT Group, DMG-Mori, McLaren, Renishaw, StarGB, Techicut, SECOTools top managers came from all over the world to join this important annual event.

The Board decided the new strategies for the next period, from the staff changing and restructuring, the UK regional development, the EU research joining, the development of the new centres in Singapore, Korea, Oregon and Virginia in USA, Australia,  Saudi Arabia.

As usual, in the evergreen spirit of the AMRC, this occasion was a fantastic opportunity to empower relationships and business opportunities. The organisation of the event was magisterially orchestrated by Professor Keith Ridgway and Dr. Adrian Allen, the brilliant founders of the AMRC.

The weekend in Barcelona offered several nice social events as the final of the Spanish Football League, the Bruce Springsteen concert and the Spanish Formula 1 Gran Prix.

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