Near Net Shape Manufacturing
Through our world-leading facilities - Royce Discovery Centre and Royce Translational Centre - our capabilities enable industrial and academic communities to explore and expand metal technologies.
Near Net Shape Manufacturing offers more efficient material usage, and can significantly reduce machining requirements to better meet national challenges in sustainability, recycling, and the circular economy. These processes can offer greater flexibility, previously inaccessible structures, and reduced costs for the next generation of complex components.
For Royce at the University of Sheffield, the capabilities enable UK industrial and academic communities to explore and expand metal technologies related to powder, wire, and melted ingot routes. This relates to leading and popular Additive Manufacturing techniques such as Selective Laser Melting and Electron Beam technologies.
Equipment
Royce hosts equipment to deliver emerging processes such as Field Assisted Sintering Technology/Spark Plasma Sintering (FAST/SPS), as well as wire fed Directed Energy Deposition processes, and hybrid processes using post-process hot forging.
Additionally, the loop between feedstock and Near Net Shape components is closed within Royce - with a range of powder production facilities for use with alloys discovered/manufactured on equipment from other Technology Platforms.
Key Case Studies
- Using 3D Printing to Help Us See into Space
- W. H. Tildsley - Sub-Sea Junction
- A New Solid State Approach to Produce Titanium Hip Joints from Powder
Part of the Henry Royce Institute network
The capabilities here at Royce at the University of Sheffield enable UK industrial and academic communities to explore and expand metal technologies related to powder, wire, and melted ingot routes. This relates to leading and popular Additive Manufacturing techniques such as Selective Laser Melting and Electron Beam technologies.