SBIR Phase I: HydroElastic Hydroforming

SBIR 第一阶段：水弹性液压成型

• 批准号: 1346063
• 负责人: Michael Ellis
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Ellis Industrial Design, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1346063&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; HydroElastic; Hydroforming

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to support the North American automakers? need to develop and implement new technologies that will allow them to form the light weight, high strength metals required to support the 2025 56 mpg CAFÉ standard. This research?s objective is to study a proposed hydroforming machine design concept to support that need with a machine constructed from a novel type of composite intensive fabrication. The project seeks to research the design for strengths and weaknesses and to propose a final concept proposal that has been validated through simulation to be suitable, viable and beneficial for forming OEM sheet metal panels. This project will create a robust prototype design suitable for production and an associated scheme of construction. It will use software to simulate the designs and report the projected performance properties of the envisioned concept design. In addition, it will construct a 1/5th scale prototype that will be used to physically validate the pressure containment system and material formability assumptions. If successful, the research will produce a viable, validated design that demonstrates the concept's suitability and readiness for full scale prototype implementation and development testing in Phase II. The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is to enhance scientific knowledge in the understanding and in the use of high strength polymer fibers in machine presses to contain fluids under high compressive pressure and direct those forces towards producing controlled hydroelastic deformation in metals. It is also to demonstrate how this can be done at cycle rates that are usable by the Automotive Industry. If successful, this will encourage prototype and low volume automotive production, potentially stimulating economic vitality in underserved and underutilized communities such as Detroit's Inner city through direct and indirect job creation.

这个小型企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第一阶段项目旨在支持北美汽车制造商开发和实施新技术，使他们能够生产出支持 2025 年 56 英里/加仑 CAFÉ 标准所需的轻质、高强度金属。研究的目标是研究提出的液压成形机设计概念，以支持由新型复合材料密集制造构造的机器的需求。该项目旨在研究设计的优点和缺点，并提出最终的概念提案。已验证通过模拟来形成适合、可行且有益的 OEM 钣金面板。该项目将创建适合生产的稳健原型设计和相关的施工方案，并使用软件来模拟设计并报告预计的性能特性。此外，还将构建一个 1/5 比例的原型，用于物理验证压力容纳系统和材料可成形性假设，如果成功，该研究将产生一个可行的、经过验证的设计，以证明该概念的适用性和可行性。为全面原型和实施做好准备第二阶段的开发测试更广泛的影响/商业潜力是增强对高强度聚合物纤维在机器压力机中的理解和使用的科学知识，以容纳高压缩压力下的流体，并将这些力引导到生产受控的水弹性材料。它还展示了如何以汽车行业可用的循环速度来实现这一点，如果成功，这将鼓励原型车和小批量汽车生产，从而有可能刺激服务不足和利用不足的社区的经济活力。底特律内城通过直接和间接创造就业机会。