MagForming
Development of new Magnesium Forming Technologies for the Aeronautics
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The MagForming STREP R&D project was launched in August 2006 and runs for 38 months. With an overall budget of around 3.5 million Euro, MagForming is funded by the European Commission under the FP6 Aerospace priority.
Coordinated by Palbam-AMTS, the project involves a well balanced and complementary consortium of 12 partners which consists of four SMEs, two universities, one research organisation, three major aerospace companies, one major magnesium developer and supplier and one leading lubricant developer and supplier.
The purpose of MagForming is to advance the state of the art in the technology of plastic processing of wrought magnesium alloys for aeronautical applications, by developing tools and methodologies for industrial technologies, and showing their feasibility in Aeronautics.
The motive to launch MagForming project came from the following facts:
Magnesium is the lightest structural engineering metal, and therefore, most attractive for structural applications where weight saving is of primary concern.
Improvements in mechanical properties, corrosion resistance and the development of advanced manufacturing processes have led to an increased interest in magnesium alloys and several works are in progress to accommodate magnesium alloys for aerospace applications.
AEROMAG project which has been started on March 2005 and finished on December 2008 is aiming at proving that wrought magnesium alloys are applicable for use in aeronautic applications. MagFormingwas created to complement the work started in AEROMAG.