Advanced Materials Manufacturing
Abstract
Advanced Materials Manufacturing is a series of efforts addressing advanced manufacturing technologies for a wide range of materials such as composites, metals, ceramics, nanomaterials, metamaterials, and low observables. These efforts will provide significant productivity and efficiency gains in the defense manufacturing base. These manufacturing technologies will accelerate delivery of technical capabilities to impact current warfighting operations, and manufacturing technologies to reduce the cost, acquisition time and risk of our major defense acquisition programs. Emerging manufacturing technologies undergoing development include: Large Scale Demonstration of Fiber Placement for Out of Autoclave Composites to enable the manufacture of very large composite parts for mobility aircraft without the need for an autoclave; Cast Eglin Steel to enable the MRAP current steel hull underbody to meet the objective threat; Net Shape Field Assisted Sintering to enable fully dense ultra high temperature ceramics for non-eroding dual pulse nozzles for future missiles and leading edges for hypersonic vehicles; and Cold Spray deposition of metal alloys to enable repair instead of replacement magnesium components for helicopters; rapid and precise application of thermoplastic materials for filling of fasteners applied via ultrasound or hot melt (near term benefit to JSF). Future efforts will focus on manufacturing of materials for ballistic survivability and manufacturing of materials for rapid fabrication of structural components.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- e9bb7c81e81429d51c9ad0d11c0585c7