Alloy Development and Advanced Mechanical EValuation and Experimentation: (ADAM&EVE Partnership)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Materials Science and Engineering
Abstract
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| Description | The effect of temperature on the mechanical properties of a number of technologically significant brazing filler metals and systems has been established. |
| Exploitation Route | The data will be useful for design and safety purposes, and informative for standards and industry practice. It also allows understanding of use to research on alloy development. The test method itself can be adopted as an improved method for such joints. |
| Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Electronics Energy Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Transport |
| Title | Mechanical test method for joints |
| Description | A test method has been designed for the shear testing of joints (such as brazed joints), which allows the testing of interfaces in pure shear, and the application of elevated temperature ad controlled atmosphere. The nature of the test is such that the mechanical performance data are captured, and the post-test sample also contains a joint that has been taken to near, but not beyond, failure conditions, which is highly suitable for post test investigation to determine operating mechanisms. A physical rig and test method has been produced. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Establishment of a dataset for various joints tested at different temperatures. |
| Description | Collaboration with EPFL on mechanical testing |
| Organisation | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | My team devised a series of experiments and created the experimental samples for testing |
| Collaborator Contribution | The EPFL team collaborated in the design and manufacture of a bespoke test rig for the samples, and made available equipment to test these at a range of different temperatures |
| Impact | New test method, dataset, publications in prepartion |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with Swansea on brazed joints |
| Organisation | Swansea University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We undertook the testing of some samples on behalf of Swansea |
| Collaborator Contribution | Swansea produced a range of samples to our specification using their new brazing filler metals. They also undertook post testing analysis of data and tested samples. |
| Impact | Dataset, publications in prparation. |
| Start Year | 2023 |