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Advanced Technologies for Discrete-Parts Manufacturing

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Defense Logistics Agency
Contract: W9113M-07-C-0226
Agency Tracking Number: L072-001-0049
Amount: $99,991.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: DLA07-001
Solicitation Number: 2007.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2007
Award Year: 2007
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2007-10-04
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2008-06-04
Small Business Information
1025 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI 53202
United States
DUNS: 796493075
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Vito Gervasi
 President
 (414) 277-4550
 gervasi@msoe.edu
Business Contact
 Vito Gervasi
Title: President
Phone: (414) 277-4550
Email: gervasi@msoe.edu
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Through efforts on an NSF-funded project, MSOE has demonstrated the ability to produce castings at a resolution and complexity finer than known metal casting processes. The project, “Design and Fabrication of Components with Optimized Lattice Microstructures,” began in 2002 with initial efforts focused upon what casting processes were available and what would be required to produce complex lattice structures; this effort led to a stringent list of requirements. As a result of this effort a new metal casting process has been developed; Compressed Mold Pressure (CMP) Casting process, when combined with Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) works extraordinarily well for producing complex castings and is expected to provide significant benefits for foundries and DLA interests in advanced investment casting in the future. The Hybrid combination of these two processes, CMP-Hybrid, has much unexplored capacity to achieve multiple desirable targets not obtainable by existing technology. This is attributable to the processing method which leads to unparalleled isostatic compressive mold stress during casting. During this project CMP-Hybrid will be adapted to the standard investment casting foundry and casting of nickel alloys above and slightly below liquidus temperatures will be conducted.

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