The Advanced Casting and Solidification Technologies facility include the CRIMSON Metal Casting Lab and the Rapid Solidification Unit Focuses on developing sustainable metal casting processes as well as developing new metal alloys for sustainable growth including Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMGs), High Entropy Alloys (HEAs), Aluminium alloys, titanium alloys and refractory alloys.
- Arc-Melting System
- Vacuum / Inert Atmospheres for Reactive and Non-Reactive Metals & Alloys
- Rapid Solidification Processes
- Tilt Casting -Suction Casting
- Micro-centrifugal casting
- C-Arc-Melting System
- Vacuum / Inert Atmospheres for Reactive and Non-Reactive Metals & Alloys
- Rapid Solidification Processes
- Tilt Casting -Suction Casting
- Micro-centrifugal casting
- Continuous Casting CRIMSON Metal Casting Process (Constraint Rapid Induction Melting Single Shot Up-Casting)
- Prototype @ Cranfield
- High Energy and Resource Efficiency
- High Structural Integrity Castings
- Induction Melting Furnace
- Heat Treatment Furnaces
- Centrifugal Casting Equipment New Alloy Design and Development Alloy modifications and thermo-mechanical processing Structure-Properties Relationsontinuous Casting CRIMSON Metal Casting Process (Constraint Rapid Induction Melting Single Shot Up-Casting)
- Prototype @ Cranfield
- High Energy and Resource Efficiency
- High Structural Integrity Castings
- Induction Melting Furnace
- Heat Treatment Furnaces
- Centrifugal Casting Equipment New Alloy Design and Development Alloy modifications and thermo-mechanical processing Structure-Properties Relations
Summary of applications
- Materials
- Bulk Metallic Glasses
- High Entropy Alloys
- Aluminium Alloys
- Titanium Alloys
- Tungsten Alloys
- Refractory Metals
- Nanostructured Alloys
- Shape Memory Alloys
- Superalloys
- Intermetallics-Shape Memory Alloys
- Superalloys
- Intermetallics
