Thursday, January 17, 2013

Yorkshire's 'Man of Steel' gets bigger thanks to hi-tech manufacturing skills

9:26 AM | Posted by Free Game Zone | Edit Post

Giant sculpture reason to stay close to the M1 in Sheffield and Rotherham States who continue to do things here, and very cleverly too

"What happened" small "?" Thomas Jane reader asked in the course of the last week

northerner

post by Alan Sykes, Yorkshire hopes to become European Capital of sculpture.

Here is part of the answer. Like the great northern states of Antony Gormley

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piece illustrating Alan, it gets bigger

More specifically, the plan of a statue 38 meters high column and celebrating Sheffield and Rotherham steel industry, which stands close to the M1 Kimberworth has taken an important step to forward. A very cleverly designed two models meters was completed by the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Research at the University of Sheffield.

The objective of the stainless steel sculpture with viewing room at the top of the column, is the ability to show both current and future of the region, because of its powerful past. The model is irrelevant. A was performed at Boeing Composite Centre near where you stand when some 2.7 million pounds raised by the private sector, is expected to begin in 2015.


The base material is a polyurethane resin board, usually found in prototypes and models of cars and planes, which are the main product of Boeing. It was carved in the center and Composite CMS machining center with five axes, using cutting tools based Technicut Sheffield.

And you thought the North skills and making death? John Halfpenny, Manufacturing Engineer at AMRC with Boeing decides otherwise. He and his team have taken extremely detailed computer models provided by Professor Marcos Rodrigues, Mariza Kormann in geometric modeling and Pattern Recognition Group and Sheffield Hallam University.

Its patented 3D laser scanning technology and helped convert 2D to 3D design using five million data points. Halfpenny said:

scanned data is good and well organized, so it was a simple matter to extend this. We had to use the raw data for full details of the surface and manipulated to produce routes. Work with the raw data of a digital model was not something I had done before, and I learned a lot of things we can apply to other projects.

Among the lessons is that the original plan to create the figure of one piece or two at worst unworkable. Adaptability Antigua under the successful fabrication jumped and finished dovetail with eight sections. Halfpenny said:
  • The Man of Steel would have been very difficult to work once, due to the complex shape of the sculpture - which would be hard to keep it in the machine, because everything has a limit, and be many notches. For example, there is no way I could have cut under the chin, unless they cut off his head.
Eeek. But everything went well and the original model of 30 cm bronze sculptor Steve Mehdi is ready for a stainless steel liner. Then you can mount a two-meter column made by steel products based in Sheffield and tools and go on a trip fundraising and dissemination of news in the region.

This will include the World Festival production of CDMA in April, marking the centenary of the discovery of stainless steel by Harry Brearley Sheffield metallurgist. Are also exposed in the Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield and great the Magna Science Centre in Rotherham, whose buildings - always impressive - less than a third of the mill Templeborough "was once a mile long and largest in the world.


Mehdi, a former metalworker it says:

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