LAST NEWS
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.
Presentation of advanced engineering activities to the Rotary Club Board and meeting with local personalities
Monday, 5, April, 2016 and 1st of May 2016
Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante made a presentation about the latest innovation in advanced materials and manufacturing technologies at the Board of the Rotary Club Tenerife (Spain) on Monday the 5th April.
The presentation include some technical slides and videos and it was structured in two distinct parts, related to state of the art technologies and running research activities-
The first part of the presentation was focused on new carbon fibers manufacturing technologies developed in the International Project REFORM. REFORM focuses on more resource-efficiency and cleaner manufacturing technologies for composite components to be exploited in different industrial sectors (e.g. Transport, Energy, Construction, ..). Fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are becoming very popular as their use reduces weight and allow innovative designs for energy-saving products during service-life. The central idea of REFORM is to focus on the manufacturing processes of FRP components considering, with an holistic view, the whole manufacturing cycle.
To this end the REFORM Consortium consists of 13 European organizations, with a record of excellence in their field of expertise, than can be grouped as follows:
– 7 high tech industrials: TEKS (France), D4S Motorsport, MACH4 and NOVA (Italy), DVST and ModuleWorks (UK), Formtech (Sweden);
– 2 industry end users, namely ACCIONA (Spain) – a global leader in the civil infrastructure and AZIMUT, (Italy) a leading boat builder supplying luxury yachts
– 1 University: USFD (UK)
– 3 research organizations: TECNALIA (Spain), IPT (Germany), SICOMP (Finland)
A spectacular video showed the tests carried out in Lapland (Finland) to prove the mechanical performances of the composites in extreme weather conditions.
The second part of the presentation was related with some new innovative surface engineering treatments, currently under development in the international research project HIPPOCAMP. These coatings deposited on the surface of metal parts, like turbocompressor components or other powertrain parts, are able to reduce the wear and to damp the vibrations occurring in the above mentioned parts during the normal conditions of use. This permits longer compent life and better efficiency reducing the fuel consumption
Further meetings followed:
- • on Monday 1st May with the Italian Consul and the Mayor of Adeje
- • on the 25th of May the Rotary Scholarship Award event at the University of La Laguna, in presence of the rector Antonio Martinson Cejas.
Picture: Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante with Dr. Guido Gianoli, President of the Rotary Club, in the beautiful environment of the H10 Hotel in Tenerife
From the left: Dr.SIlvio Pelizzolo, Italian Onorary Consul, José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga, Mayor of Adeje in Tenerife (ES) and Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante
From the left: Dr. Antonina Giacobbe, editor of the newspaper ViviTenerife, Prof. Jose Carlo Alberto, president of the Rotary Tenerife, Prof. Antonio Martinson Cejas, Rector of the La Laguna University, Dr. Guido Gianoli, President of the Rotary Tenerife Sur, and Dr. Sergio Durante
D4S Motorsport carried out some reference tests for the Hippocamp technology
Wednesday, 30, March, 2016 – Pavia (IT)
D4S Motorsport is setting up new technologies to be applied to turbocompressor parts and gearboxes for racing and tourism cars.
In fact the 2016 will be definitely the year of the tests for advanced components for the cooling system and advanced surface engineering for these kind of components.
As already mentioned in another press release, in the project MICROFAST D4S Motorsport is developing a revolutionary ultralight titanium water pump to keep the racing engine at super-stable temperature even in extreme and/or fast variable weather conditions.
At the same time new advanced low friction and passive damping coatings are under development in the international project named HIPPOCAMP. The turboicompressor shaft and the transmission parts are under testing in the extreme conditions of the race to measure the performance gain in comparison with several more traditional solutions.
It is the first time that D4S Motorsport is applying F1 and Le Mans Series technologies into the Karting races.
As it happened last year, Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante will be the chief test driver for both the technologies and he will personally participate to the World Championship 2016 that will be held in Sweden on the next September to prove the technologies on the real field.
Sergio Durante with Cristiano Cedrino and Mauro Comoglio with the D4S Motorsport Porsche Proto ready for the Hippocamp Technology tests.