Institute #3 – Lightweight and Modern Metals Manufacturing Innovation Institute (Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT))
Abstract
Advanced lightweight metals retain properties comparable to heavier, traditional materials, and can enable weight reduction in a variety of components and products with significant energy savings and increased payloads. This MII will scale-up research across multiple areas to accelerate market expansion by applying an integrated materials and manufacturing approach, addressing a lack of design guides and certifications as well as cost and scale-up challenges. The goal is to catalyze the development of an advanced lightweight metal U.S. supplier base and to enable DoD to realize greater speed and agility of manned, unmanned, and Warfighter systems as well as benefits for commercial applications. Technology thrust areas: (1) priority metal classes and its alloys of advanced high-strength steels, titanium, aluminum and magnesium; (2) technology development needs grouped into six pillars: melt processing; powder processing; thermo-mechanical processing; low cost - agile tooling, coatings, and joining and assembly; (3) Crosscutting themes: Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), design, life-cycle analysis, validation/certification, cost modeling, supply chain, corrosion, and ballistic/blast This MII was established in February 2014, with cooperative agreement funds programmed in this budget through FY 2018.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- c98db64a677afd29d778c05b03a628cc