KTP with C4 Carbides; Tooth profile of tools made by Additive Manufacturing

This project aims to design and optimise the tooth geometry of cutting blades manufactured using advanced metal additive manufacturing (AM) technology to enable efficient chip removal of such blades. Use of AM for chip removal cutting tools is a next-generation manufacturing technology which provides more sustainable manufacturing methods and an increasingly diversified supply chain which is less dependent on established and often monopolised industries. The products made using AM benefit from the ability to create shapes and geometries which cannot be achieved using conventional manufacturing. This project is designed to study the potential and limitations of the additive-manufactured tools and develop the optimum geometry of the cutting tool to provide improved tool performance, which will be taken to market by the company.