This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $250,000 to Purdue University to develop an energy-efficient manufacturing process for producing lightweight titanium alloy sheet, foil and wire. Specifically, the award will support optimizing hybrid machining process parameters to influence material structure and properties for these thin gauge formats. The project will also characterize the new process in terms of product quality, energy usage, production rate and cost to define a pre-commercial system. The manufacturing benefits will be quantified in energy savings, property enhancements, lower production costs and applicability to varied material systems compared to conventional multi-stage rolling. The work advances the NSF program's goals of supporting innovative technologies and solutions to national challenges.
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