 A three year research project has just been
started in the Department supported by the CMI (Cambridge-MIT Institute). It is concerned with the
development of a novel ultra-light steel sandwich sheet, termed a hybrid stainless steel assembly (HSSA),
composed of thin steel faceplates and a core containing steel fibres. The sheet, which has a wide range of
potential applications, is light, stiff, formable, weldable and has attractive vibration damping and energy
absorption properties.
The project is being led by Bill Stronge (CUED) and Bill Clyne (Materials Science and Metallurgy) in
Cambridge and by Tom Wierzbicki and Subra Suresh at MIT and involves a consortium of a dozen industrial
partners. A website has been set up
giving details of the project. |
