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Collaborative R&D Projects

Granta’s is actively engaged industry collaborative R&D projects on topics including additive manufacturing, computation, materials design, and sustainability.

Granta participates in numerous industry and government funded collaborative projects in the wide range of subject areas listed below. This work is coordinated by our dedicated Collaborative R&D Team.

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Our CR&D Team

Our Collaborative R&D team are experts in specifying, securing funding for, and executing projects, in collaboration with government, industry, and academia.

Case study: AMAZE

AMAZE was a major collaborative project that aimed to dramatically cut the costs of producing Additively-Manufactured metal products and to almost eliminate waste from the process. Read about the project and Granta’s involvement.

The AMAZE Project

AMAZE is a collaborative project that aims to rapidly produce large, defect-free additively-manufactured (AM) metallic components up to 2m in size, ideally with close to zero waste, for use in sectors including aeronautics, space, automotive, nuclear fusion and tooling. Granta is providing an overarching materials information management system for the consortium, enabling the 28 project partners to pool materials data and to create a single go-to source of knowledge. This data is used, for example, in simulation work to understand and optimize AM processes. It can also help to construct a clear picture of the cost structure and environmental footprint of a given metallic component.

 

Case study: HITEA

HITEA was a 17-strong consortium, led by Rolls-Royce formed to address the need to find replacements for hexavalent chromium following the introduction of new regulations to control the use of the material.

HITEA Aerospace Coatings Project

HITEA was a 17-strong consortium, led by Rolls-Royce for industrial aerospace end-users, that was formed to address the need to find replacements for hexavalent chromium following the introduction of regulations to control the use of the material from 2017. Granta is enabling the project to develop a single shared source of knowledge for the consortium partners. By consolidating legacy test data gathered over 40 years with the results of new testing on materials properties and processing, along with unique reference data on restricted substances and regulations, the consortium was able to support effective decision making in the specification and use of alternative coating solutions.