Concept and Team

Project Concept

Our goal is to explore the feasibility of a continuously fed heading machine. Continuous billet feeding allows an almost completely automated heading process, leading to higher production volumes and significant labor cost savings. By creating a small scale prototype heading plasticine, we can model the hot-heading process at room temperature. This is because plasticine at room temperature has similar mechanical properties as aluminium at 1000C, which is its forging temperature.

This concept has major cost implications for engineers during the manufacturing process because hot-worked steel heading, which is a cost intensive process, can potentially be modeled in the real world with a much cheaper down-scaled prototyping machine. On this website you can read about our prototype plasticine heading machine design, testing plan, and up-scaling to a real life hot-working heading machine.

The Team

Boris Fedorov

Mechanical Engineering, 4th Year

I have previously interned in Manufacturing Engineering at a medical device company and am currently Structures Lead for the Solar Vehicle Team.

Rishabh Roy

Mechanical Engineering, 3rd Year

I am currently the President and Vice President of Finance for the Swim Club at Berkeley. In Mechanical Engineering, I am most interested in Product Design. I am also interested in Business Management.

Harald Tryti Rieber

Mechanical Engineering, MSc Student

Previously I have been involved in two startups, been working as a design engineer consultant and done international projects in SCM. My biggest interest with Mechanical Engineering is innovative design and mechatronics.

Henry Ly

Mechanical Engineering, 3rd Year

Previously, I’ve been involved with the Formula SAE team, where I designed high strength and easy to manufacture and assemble parts for suspension and steering. I'm interested in mechanical design, particularly in high volume production environments.

Acknowledgements

People:

Thank you for your advice and guidance throughout the semester.

Professor Adi Ben Artzy

uGSI Josh DeWitt

Jacobs Institute Design Specialist Chris Parsell


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