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Rapid Prototypes for Aircraft, Satellite, Guided Missile Applications

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Aluminum Aerospace Castings
Aerospace Flight Hardware / Applications

Nu-Cast, Inc. uses the latest aluminum aerospace casting technologies to meet your custom aerospace casting specifications.

One of our lightweight aluminum aerospace casting projects:

Nu-cast Inc and NASA engineering worked to produce high strength aerospace castings derived from computer generated prototype patterns.

Aluminum Aerospace Castings Achievement

The SHELS monolithic aluminum investment casting measures approximately 36" x 33" x 20" and weighs 110 lb. This structure was designed for minimum weight and maximum structural efficiency, and is considered a state of the art development item. Its size, configuration, complexity and stringent metallurgical and quality requirements combine to make this unit exceed conventional production investment casting capabilities.

Aerospace Flight Hardware

NCI's proprietary processes enable the SHELS structure to become reality. The launcher is a "J"-shaped box beam monolithic structure, cantilevered from the orbiter's side-wall adapter beam. The launcher requires a very weight efficient structure with a compact profile. Standard aerospace fabrication processes, such as riveting and welding are impractical due to limited access of rivet tooling, assembly fixtures and TIG welding torches within the box structure. The aerospace casting provides essentially 100% structural joint efficiency and maximizes available payload space.

Alternate designs and aerospace fabrication and aerospace casting technologies were considered and eliminated as viable manufacturing processes. NCI's technologies and rapid pattern production have proven to be the most viable approach to producing the Launch / Structure aerospace casting for carrying and ejecting the 600 lb. spacecraft payload from the Orbiter's adapter beam.

GOVERNMENT / SCIENCE APPLICATIONS

Developed a prototype using the NU-CAST production process, providing up to 140 X improvement in stiffness-to-weight ratio over a same-size plate of equal mass, such as instrument mounting platforms and optical benches.

The performance and cost improvement of this process over conventional manufacturing is expected to result in rapid acceptance in the Government-based aerospace markets.

AEROSPACE CASTINGS ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Proposed for use on James Webb Space Telescope Optical Bench.

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Prototype's structural performance validated
the capability of the process and confirmed
performance predictions.

AEROSPACE CASTINGS COMMERCIALIZATION

Patented process that uses rapid prototyping methodology based on stereolithography (SLA) process, together with in-house variants of modern ceramic investment casting techniques, to produce small, high-efficiency 3-D truss-like structures.

The performance and cost improvement of this process over conventional manufacture is expected to result in rapid acceptance in commercial aerospace markets.

Aggregate value for structures of this type is measured in millions of dollars.

Goddard Space Flight Center - 1998 Phase II, SS%-

AEROSPACE CASTINGS INNOVATIONS

Design and manufacture of extremely high stiffness to weight precision structures for aerospace applications. These structures provide greater flexibility in component attachment. The exceptional stiffnes and monolithic approach of Nu-Truss minimizes signal - to - noise ratio issues.

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Aluminum Aerospace Castings
Aerospace Flight Hardware / Applications