| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/K70304/01 |
| Title: |
ADVANCED SURFACE ENGINEERING OF TITANIUM ALLOY COMPONENTS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Baker, Professor T N |
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| Department: |
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Strathclyde |
| Scheme: |
LINK |
| Starts: |
01 September 1995 |
Ends: |
31 August 1998 |
Value (£): |
83,195
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Materials Characterisation |
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| Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
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The scientific partners in this LINK Surface Engineering Project are the Universities of Strathclyde and Birmingham and AEA Culham Laboratory, who will collaborate with five industrial organisations. A project is proposed to improve the surface hardness and wear resistance of Ti6A14V alloy by producing a surface layer through the incorporate of TiN, TiC, and SiC using liquid phase high energy beam techniques. The project builds on an existing collaboration between Strathclyde University and Culham and the expertise thus developed will be used to assess several candidate processing treatments through microstructure hardness profiles and tribological performance. The optimum treatment will be then adopted for the development of a surface modified layer on at least two prototype components (gears a turbine blades) which will involve other members of the Consortium.Detailed studies of the material produced by the optimum treatment, will also be used to asses the particular incorporation techniques into the surface melted pool and the role of overlapping tracks to cover large surface areas. Pin on disc wear tests will be undertaken against several counterfaces to bench mark the high energy beam surface modification techniques.
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http://www.strath.ac.uk |