"ULTRALIGERO 18-19" ULTRALIGER - DEVELOPMENT OF ULTRALIGERAL ALLOYS TO BE PROCESSED WITH ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES DESCRIPTION Additive Manufacturing (FA) technologies allow the production of products with more complex geometries than those obtained through traditional manufacturing technologies. The main feature of FA technologies is that the parts or products are manufactured by the successive selective addition of material, directly from a digital file with the geometry of the CAD part 3D. One of the limitations of additive metal fabrication technologies is the materials that can be processed, being conditioned by some steels, Co-Cr alloys, nickel base alloys, titanium alloys and some aluminum alloys. Within ultralight alloys, aluminum alloys that are being processed by additive technologies are designed to be processed by foundry techniques and their properties are not suitable for structural applications. At present, these cast aluminum alloys are being processed with laser beam metal (SLM) technologies, however, these technologies; They have a lower production speed (up to 25 cm3 / h) compared to electron beam technologies (up to 60 cm3 / h). Additive metal fabrication is an opportunity for the industry to develop new products with high added value using the great geometric freedom of manufacturing parts layer by layer. It is a very powerful trend to obtain products of low weight but for this it is necessary to have resistant materials, as isotropic as possible and of very low density. OBJECTIVES With this scenario, the ULTRALIGERO project has as its main objective to develop an ultralight magnesium, aluminum or titanium based alloy that is compatible with the processing using the high productivity additive manufacturing technology known as electron beam melting (EBM). In the project the raw material will be manufactured, the process conditions will be obtained and the material processed with said technology will be characterized. This project aims to give the industry a way of high productivity of ultralight parts by additive manufacturing which means advantages for multiple sectors. Project Number: 21800033 Grant Agreement: IMDEEA / 2018/23 Duration: From 01/06/2018 to 30/06/2019 Coordinated in AIDIMME by: MARTINEZ CENICEROS, MARIO R&D Line: TO BE DETERMINED RESULTS OBTAINED Year 2019: Result obtained Deliverables:    Year 2019: -Optimal manufacturing parameters of the ultralight alloy Ti48Al2Nb2Cr to obtain dense or solid parts by optimizing the loss of Al, the most volatile component of the alloy. -Microstructural characterization of the processed alloy and comparison with those obtained by conventional techniques to verify the suitability of the specifications previously obtained. -Manufacturing of samples with simple geometry (cubes) guaranteeing the repeatability and reproducibility of the process parameters. -Exploration of an alternative way to manufacture lightweight materials: obtaining graphene from the addition of an affordable precursor, generating a composite material of a Ti6Al4V-graphene and Cu-graphene metal matrix. PUBLISHED NEWS general broadcast http://actualidad.aidimme.es/2019/07/26/desarrollo-aleac (...) http://actualidad.aidimme.es/2018/12/12/desarrollo-aleac (...) PROJECT WEB https://www.aidimme.es/serviciosOnline/difusion_proyecto(...) GRANT 95.218,75 € TARGET AUDIENCE AND IMPACT MEASUREMENT 1973 Access to the project website 1262 Access to news published on own websites. Total Accesses: 3235 Objective Sectors by CNAE CNAE: 2550 - Forging, stamping and drawing of metal - Number of target companies: 82 (41 from the Valencian Community) CNAE: 2599 - Manufacture of other metallic products - Number of target companies: 244 (115 of the Valencian Community) CNAE: 2711 - Manufacture of engines, generators and tr - Number of target companies: 21 (6 from the Valencian Community) CNAE: 2811 - Manufacture of engines and turbines, except - No. of target companies: 10 (5 from the Valencian Community) CNAE: 2829 - Manufacture of other machinery for general use - No. of target companies: 92 (60 in the Valencian Community) TRACTOR COMPANIES Thanks to its support and signature of the "declaration of participation" the project has been funded. VALVER AIR SPEED, SL CREASOLID, SL ORMET, SL ORPLAS TECHNOLOGY, SL GH ELECTROTERMIA, SAU TEQUIR, SL DENTAL CAD DESIGN SLL MACER, SL COMPANIES DIFFUSION R&D PROJECTS They want to know first-hand the evolution of the project, and its progress to the final result. COMPANIES TRANSFER KNOWLEDGE They will implement technologies, develop strategies or look for new models based on the results.