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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
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
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:
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.