IUCRC Planning Grant University of New Hampshire: Center for Industrial Metal Forming

IUCRC 规划拨款新罕布什尔大学：工业金属成型中心

• 批准号: 2209759
• 负责人: Brad Kinsey
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2209759&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Planning; Grant; University; New

Metal forming processes are among the most efficient, economical and environmentally-friendly high-volume manufacturing techniques, creating products by re-shaping the input feedstock, with limited waste, and oftentimes at room temperature. Approximately 5.8% of the U.S. GDP ($21.4 trillion in 2019) is tied to industries such as automotive, aerospace, defense, materials, electronics and biomedical, all extensively utilizing metal forming processes. Therefore, the estimated economic impact of metal forming in the U.S. society is in the hundreds of billion $. This award supports the planning phase of the proposed Center for Industrial Metal Forming (CIMF). The mission of the Center, which is comprised of Ohio State University (OSU), Oakland University (OU), North Carolina State University (NCSU) and University of New Hampshire (UNH), is to perform cutting-edge, pre-competitive fundamental research in metal forming science and engineering and to create the next generation of industry experts. CIMF will conduct industry-driven transformational research in novel bulk and sheet forming processes; Integrated Computational Metal Forming (ICMF) and the sciences that tie into it, such as plasticity and fracture; advanced equipment and die technologies; and the application of sensors and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in metal forming. This effort will necessitate an interdisciplinary approach with experts from manufacturing engineering, electrical engineering, materials science, numerical methods, data analytics and experimental mechanics. Therefore, CIMF activities will create a highly-competitive, diverse workforce to support the growth of U.S. industry and expand manufacturing employment, while also contributing to the Nation’s supply chain resilience and global market competitiveness. CIMF is designed around integrating the core competencies of its four sites with the industry needs identified during the extensive customer discovery. The fundamental research at CIMF will be based on three pillars: 1) computational and material enhancements in forming; 2) innovative forming processes; and 3) equipment and die innovation. These pillars blend with the unique expertise of each site: Integrated Computational Metal Forming (ICMF) for OSU; shearing processes, IIoT in stamping and equipment and die innovation for OU; forging, hybrid forming processes and tribology for NCSU; and material and process modeling and flexible forming for UNH. Vertical, fundamental advances will be achieved by employing innovative approaches in sheet metal/tube forming, forging and extrusion processes, improving material formability, advancing methods for virtual process design, and employing new die materials, coatings, lubricants and metal forming equipment. Specifically, the industry-focused projects will target process innovation (e.g., hydro-forging, flexible forming), forming control based on IIoT, energy-efficient forming machines, enhanced performance of additively-manufactured dies, etc. The results will be advancements in material utilization, final part performance and weight reduction, industry-friendly computational tools for process design, metal forming dies with extended life and industrial metal forming processes of increased productivity, across a range of advanced material systems and industries, e.g., automotive, aerospace, and biomedical. The major contributions of the UNH site will be with respect to material innovations through process and computational modeling in bulk and sheet forming, e.g., with respect to flexible forming. The UNH team includes faculty with expertise in non-conventional forming processes and modeling; non-proportional loading and cyclic testing; crystal plasticity modeling for elasto-plasticity; microstructure analytics; cybersecurity; and artificial intelligence. Collaborative CIMF projects with other sites will benefit from access to the John Olson Advanced Manufacturing Center (a 20,000 sq.ft. facility with $4M worth of industrial equipment), high performance computing resources, the UNH University Instrumentation Center (which includes extensive microscopy equipment), and a state-of-art $1.2M double-sided incremental forming machine.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

金属形成工艺是最有效，最经济和环保的高批量制造技术，通过重新成型输入原料，浪费有限，在室温下经常造成产品来创建产品在2019年）与汽车，航空航天，材料，电子和生物医学等行业有关，所有这些都广泛的utirmingl流程。工业金属成型中心（CIMF）。 CIMF的科学和工程专家将在新型散装和综合的计算金属形成（ICMF）中进行行业驱动的转型；在金属形成中，传感器和工业互联网（IIOT）将与制造业，电气工程，材料科学，数据分析实验机制的专家进行互助。美国扩大制造业的就业人数，同时也为国家的供应链做出了贡献，旨在将四个网站与CIMF的基本研究中的四个网站相结合。增强; NCSU的流程和摩擦学； Cal，基本进步将通过使用钣金/管形成，改善材料的形成，用于虚拟过程设计的进步方法，并采用新的模型。将目标工艺创新（例如，水力锻造，柔性形成），基于IIT的控制，能源效率形成机器，增强的添加性模具的性能增强，iZatil绩效和减轻体重的效果。在高级材料系统和行业中，例如CE和生物医学。形成弹性塑料的过程和建模；一项最先进的120万美元双面增量成型机。该奖项反映了NSF'SF'Sttory Mission，并通过使用Toundation的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准来通过评估来支持您的支持。