Controlling the cut - Nottingham engineers top leader board

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06 Apr 2012 09:22:00.000

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A high-tech, precision, water jet milling control system which could transform the manufacture of complex aerospace, optical and biomedical structures and devices is being developed by an international team of engineers led by The University of Nottingham.

With European funding of €3.8m (£3.17m) Dragos Axinte, a professor of manufacturing engineering, and his research team in the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering are developing a new ‘self-learning’ controlled-depth milling technique which can be programmed to work — with high accuracy and without human intervention — on the surface of 3D, geometric, multi-gradient surfaces.

Professor Axinte, who is co-ordinating the project, said: “If you want to generate surfaces in difficult-to-cut or heat-sensitive materials while exerting minimal specific forces abrasive water jet milling will do the job. For this technology the research team of ConforM2-Jet project, developed a precision technique to generate even the most complex multi-gradient surfaces with high accuracy.

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More information is available from Professor Dragos Axinte, at The University of Nottingham, on +44 (0)115 951 4117, dragos.axinte@nottingham.ac.uk
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