£100,000 SPRINT Grant for Additive Manufacture

SPRINT has awarded Stress-Space Ltd a grant of £100,000 to address the key microstructural challenges associated with measuring surface residual stresses in additively manufactured structures using X-ray diffraction.  

Our enhanced Adaptive X-Raybot System for AM materials will be a first of its kind machine that is truly portable and capable of mapping residual stresses in-situ over complex geometry surfaces of 3-D printed components. It will deliver the high-quality residual stress data required to develop future smart manufacturing processes that avoid rework, reduce costs, prevent fatigue failures and meet stringent fracture control requirements, for example during the loading phase of hazardous spacecraft propellant tanks. 

SPRINT is a unique partnership of top UK space universities, industry, government agencies and the investment community dedicated to supporting the growth of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in the UK through the commercial exploitation of space data and technologies.