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Titanium Challenge 2012

CSIRO's Titanium Challenge is back in 2012, and it's bigger and better than before! This year you can enter either an Additive Manufacturing Challenge, or a Materials Challenge!

11 April 2012 | Updated 12 October 2012

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The 2012 Titanium Challenge winners

Congratulations to the winners:

Winner of the 2012 Additive Manufacturing Challenge: Matt Troup of the University of Canberra, for his design for a titanium pack. Matt wins the CSIRO award, and the 3D Printing Systems printer.

Runner-up, 2012 Additive Manufacturing Challenge: Man Singh of UWA for his design for a carbon fibre-titanium sandwich composite material. Man wins the Coogee TiRO award, a trip to the AeroMat 2013 conference.

Winner of the 2012 Materials Challenge: Kimberley Taing of Monash University, for her paper "It's what's on the inside that counts" describing the application of advanced processing in titanium to watch manufacture. Kimberley wins the Boeing award, a trip to Seattle to tour the Boeing Commercial Airplane assembly plant.

Take a look at the winning entries here:

Downloads

2012 Titanium Additive Challenge Matt Troup design entry (pdf - 4.26mb)
2012 Titanium Additive Challenge Man Singh design entry (pdf - 0.88mb)
2012 Titanium Challenge K Taing poster (pdf - 0.57mb)
2012 Titanium Challenge K Taing report (pdf - 0.67mb)

Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry - we've published a selection of Additive Challenge design entries below.

Click on each image to view a high resolution version.


Design for a titanium pack frame, by Matt Troup of Canberra University

Carbon fibre-titanium sandwich composite material, by Man Singh of University of WA

Shift drum for F-SAE vehicle, by Nathan Tarlington of University of Wollongong

Aerofoil shaped control arms for F-SAE vehicle by Nathan Tarlington of University of Wollongong

Design for a collapsible folding crutch by Sam Tomkins, University of Canberra