Time Compression Technologies in Forming Die Tooling
- R. German, S. Joshi and P. Cohen are leading the efforts for the rapid creation of production tooling. To avoid delays in obtaining trial tool sets, many companies resort to machining test parts from large blanks. Unfortunately, machined materials from sintered materials in surface finish, composition, density, and impact that would be made from sintering. The team is currently collecting and documenting the existing rapid tooling techniques in die compaction with regard to properties, performance, tolerance, cost, finishing time, features and life.

The undergraduate student who would join this team would be engaged in following activities:

• Using sintered tooling to make a large number of compacts and documenting the tooling condition at various stages throughout the life of the tool set
• Inspecting output compacts for defects traceable to the tooling and analyzing the results with appropriate statistical methods.