Material forming

To talk about "material forming" really means entering the heart of the manufacturing industry, which is a very complex world due to the technologies it requires.

In that respect, such technologies as: electron-beam forming for super alloys’ applications, hydroforming, laser forming, thixo-forging for steel and aluminium alloys’ usage, SPF-DB for titanium shaping and joining or RTM, infusion or resin film infusion for new CFRP integrated multifunctional solutions, will all be central in the design of a new sound conceptual process for material forming.

The product and semi-product development is also strengthened by modelling activities carried out through a rich set of both commercial and homemade SW tools, some of which integrate technological parameters like formability or castability with materials’ microstructural characteristics or oxidation surface affinity.

Deliverables

RINA’s material forming technological offer is directed both to materials’ end-users and to semi-product manufacturers. We count on a wide set of equipment:

• Hydroforming of flat and tubular steel and light alloys
• Cold and hot isostatic pressing of all sorts of powder materials
• Hot isostatic pressing diffusion bonding of long fibre metal matrix composite
• Hot isostatic pressing of discontinuous or oxide dispersed composite
• Hot isostatic pressing for casting voids’ annealing
• Hot and cold pressing of flat steel and light alloys
• Vacuum resin infusion and resin transfer moulding of polymeric matrix composites
• Super plastic forging of light alloys
• Spray forming for metallic and ceramic materials
• Gas pressure sintering for ceramics and ceramic composites
• Hot and cold rolling.

Focus on labs & facilities

We perform material forming developments by means of the following facilities:

• HIP (Hot Isostatic Pressing)
• CIP (Cold Isostatic Press)
• Hydroforming equipment
• Two high reversible hot rolling mill
• Cold rolling mill
• A laboratory-sized cold press
• A ceramics and refractory materials laboratory
• A vacuum furnace
• A vacuum and controlled atmosphere mechanical hot press
• A gas pressure sintering furnace
• A HIP - Hot-Isostatic Press
• Small, medium and large rapid temperature furnaces.