AM-ACTS - Additive Manufacturing of Actively Cooled Thermal Shields
The project aims at optmizing the performance of the ACTS pieces through an optimization of its constituent materials.
The AM-ACTS project, involving a multidisciplinary consortium with a balanced scientific (two universities and one research center) and industrial (one SME and one Large Enterprise) partnership, aims at demonstrating the feasibility of using active microfluidic cooling for enhancing the performance of thermal protection
systems fabricated from ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) and refractory metals for use in aerospace, energy-generation and many other engineering applications.
Research Area
- Teknik
- Produktionsteknik
Research environment / Institution
- Produktionsteknik
- Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap
Project leader
Research Partner
- Universidad de Extremadura
- Iberica del Espacio SA
- Questek Europe AB
- Laboratoire Procédés, Matériaux et Energie Solaire (PROMES)
Research funding
- Vinnova
Project time
2022 - 2024