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Benefit Assessment of High Productivity Ultrasonic Assisted Drilling for Shipbuilding

  • Benefit Assessment of High Productivity Ultrasonic Assisted Drilling for Shipbuilding
Overview

Benefit Assessment of High Productivity Ultrasonic Assisted Drilling for Shipbuilding (2012-461)

Project Team:

  • Edison Welding Institute
  • Ingalls Shipbuilding
  • Newport News Shipbuilding
  • Bollinger Shipyards

2012

NSRP ASE Investment: $147K

Objective:

This project evaluated the potential benefit to shipbuilding applications from the use of ultrasonic assisted drilling (UAD) to shorten build time and reduce the cost of ship construction. A shipyard assessment was conducted to determine the types of metalworking systems used in the manufacturing of ship structures. An Ultrasonic Machining (UM) module was modified from its machining center variant to a system capable of being interchanged with Morse Taper spindle-based machines. The project successfully demonstrated the ability to apply UM technology to stationary and portable machining centers to achieve improvements in productivity by as much as 74.8 percent.

Key Deliverables:

Request Final Report from NSRP – Limited Distribution authorized to the U.S. shipbuilding and repair industry and NSRP ASE Program representatives

  National Shipbuilding Research Program: Taking shipbuilding and repair to the next level NSRP is co-funded by the U.S. Shipbuilding Industry and U.S. Navy

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