Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract Materials with high performance regarding thermal properties as well as mechanical properties are required for application in high heat-flux environments, especially in new technologies for advanced energy production such as plasma facing materials in fusion reactors. With the incorporation of high strength and […]
Category Archives: High performance materials (tungsten, composites)
Tungsten fibre-reinforced copper composites for high temperature and high heat flux applications
Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract The present offer describes a tungsten fibre-reinforced copper (Wf-Cu) composite material concept that exploits the properties of commercially available drawn high-strength tungsten fibres embedded in a high conductivity copper matrix. With this approach, materials that can be realised exhibit outstanding property combinations regarding […]
Additive manufacturing of tungsten by means of laser powder bed fusion
Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract The present offer describes an additive manufacturing (AM) technology for tungsten which is a refractory metal with outstanding properties as tungsten exhibits e.g. the highest melting point as well as the lowest vapour pressure of all metals. With such a manufacturing approach, geometrically […]
Selective Laser Melting applied in continuous production mode to overcome dimensional limits
Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract Developed at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), this technology offer gives the possibility to have an expansion of dimensional limits in Additive Manufacturing using powder bed processes. Inspired from other manufacturing technologies (e.g. extrusion), modifications for existing machine layouts have been designed and […]
Process for pilot hole fabrication in wire cutting (Electrical Discharge Machining, EDM) to improve length/diameter-ratio and precision
Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract Developed at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) for Test-Blanket-Module components, this technology offers increases limits in length/diameter ratio and precision (drift) of pilot holes used for Electrical Discharge Machining (wire cutting). Instead of fabricating a start hole e.g. by deep-hole drilling, grooves are […]
Modular High-Field Superconducting Magnets with Demountable Joints
Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract The development of modular high temperature superconducting magnets offers significant benefits to fusion by reducing the risk of failure while facilitating the maintenance and enabling the construction of very large complex components. University of Durham and CCFE have worked on the soldered joints […]