February 15th. 2019. Danko Arlington is pleased to continue its sponsorship of the Johns Hopkins University’s Baja Team for 2019. For years, the company has been helping to educate students from the Whiting School of Engineering.
This year, the undergraduate mechanical engineers have re-designed their dune buggy’s CT backing plate casting for continued improvements. The new CAD design was downloaded by the company, reviewed, virtually gated, and analyzed with solidification software in a matter of hours. The data was then sent to the company’s 3-D printer which produced an accurate sand mold the next day. Students returned to witness metal pouring, grinding, heat treating, straightening, x-ray, liquid penetrant, and final inspection.
Understanding the entire foundry manufacturing process has been an invaluable lesson for the JHU Baja team. They not only left with an aerospace grade transmission casting, but now have an engineering experience for a lifetime!
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