ANSTO is involved in two significant and new ARC grants announced today: a $3.8M Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Automated Manufacture of Advanced Composites (led by the University of New South Wales); and a $330k Linkage project to develop technology to manufacture large-scale, wear-resistant components (led by RMIT University). In both cases, the ANSTO contact is our Industrial Liaison Manager, Anna Paradowska.
The new ARC Training Centre for Automated Manufacture of Advanced Composites, which includes a number of national and international companies and research organisations, aims to develop innovative researchers who can transform Australia’s high-performance carbon composites manufacturing industry. This aim will be achieved through the adoption and creative use of advanced automation technology, which brings benefits of speed, flexibility and accuracy. Industry-based research experience will be enhanced through exposure to international partners at the cutting edge of advanced composites manufacturing research and development in developed economies. The intended outcome is a generation of innovators who can use the benefits of automation to position Australian manufacturers as world-class agile producers of high-value advanced composite structures using high-rate, error-free processes. See also UNSW's news release.
This Linkage project, which also includes Weir Minerals Australia Ltd., aims to develop technology to manufacture large scale, wear-resistant components, involving new materials, computer-aided-design and direct hybrid manufacturing comprising laser additive and machining processes. The technology could produce more wear resistant components, using new iron-based powders, designed mesoscale graded structures and microscale reinforcing phases of appropriate morphology and size. The proposed approach is expected to lead to lower cost manufacturing mining products which perform better and have a lower environmental footprint, and more competitive Australian mining manufacturing operations.
Published: 06/05/2016