Keywords: 3D printing, UAM, ultrasonic additive manufacturing
Rocket Engine combustion chambers face numerous environmental challenges: Tight Tolerances, High Temperatures, High Pressures, Oxidizing or Reducing Environments, Extreme Temperature Differentials, Cryogenic Fluids,vacuum exposure,, Often at the same time. Traditional manufacturing processes have been horrifically expensive. Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing offers the prospect to dramatically lower these costs. TGV Rockets with our UAM partner is undertaking to make a complex geometry chamber with active cooling that can operate in a Hydrogen/Oxygen environment.
Journal: TechConnect Briefs
Volume: 4, Informatics, Electronics and Microsystems: TechConnect Briefs 2017
Published: May 14, 2017
Pages: 163 - 165
Industry sector: Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
Topic: 3D Printing
ISBN: 978-0-9988782-1-8