This MQP is part of a larger project for the Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. This project seeks to reduce metal waste generated at US military forward operating bases. In partnership with other research laboratories, WPI’s Center for Heat Treating Excellence is developing a 3D-printing-enabled investment casting manufacturing process to allow soldiers to make replacement parts. To support this initiative, our MQP team was tasked with evaluating the metallurgical properties of heat-treated carbon steels. We conducted multiple heat treatment operations on two steel alloys, which provided a set of samples with known hardness and grain structure data. Our team was also tasked with creating an improved furnace control system. This was accomplished by prototyping a custom circuit board and control interface. Additionally, our team conducted an axiomatic design decomposition, which broke down those two tasks into their respective design matrices, resulting in improved task efficiency.

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Creator

• Furman, Samuel
• Fan, Wenlan
• Scheid, Dawson
• Tengdin, Daniel

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042722-161159
• 64491

Keyword

• 8630 and 1018 Steel
• Axiomatic Design Decomposition
• Furnace User Interface
• Heat Treatment of Carbon Steels

Advisor

• Liang, Jianyu
• Mishra, Brajendra
• Towner, Walter Thomas
• Bitar, Stephen John

Year

• 2022

Date created

• 2022-04-27

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Management Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright