Jackweld is an engineering design bureau offering consultancy and design and development services for new or improved processes, mechanical components and machinery for industry. Jackweld also has expertise in designing and developing innovative machinery to deliver new industrial processes.
Read MoreThe Jackweld team started as a small group of technicians and engineers in the 1980’s to improve the machinery and processes in the manufacture of prestressed precast concrete. This involved numerous ground breaking innovations, such as through-the-stressed-tendon heating to accelerate the turn around of the plant and increase productivity, which were seen through to successful practical implementation in the factory. The team continued to work as a group of associates for a number of years, and worked on equipment in support to elements of the Army. The group was formed into Jackweld in 2007 as an industrial group for the investigation of the practical implementation of hydro-pillar welding as a manufacturing process for TWI. In addition to general engineering work, the team has been involved in a number of research and development projects with Horizon 2020 and Innovate UK. Jackweld has a core team of experts in a range of fields, and has a long term working relationship with a number of industrial partners.
Jackweld have pioneered a number of technologies such as through-the stressed-tendon heat accelerated curing of pre cast concrete, new methods to monitor the curing of concrete, vibrationless orbital friction welding, and coupling devices for high speed ultrasonic NDT scanning of metals and composite structures.
Our business is problem solving, developing cost effective and low risk routes to deliver solutions.
Our vision is that properly directed, innovation can deliver greater productivity and cost effectiveness, and at the same time improving sustainability and reducing both the environmental impact and the CO2 footprint.
Jackweld has pioneered several innovative hard manufacturing processes. This includes designing and developing various ground breaking machine technologies to implement innovative industrial processes. We carry out basic R&D to identify opportunities for problem solving and improving manufacturing processes. We have long standing working relationships with a number of engineering partners, and out team includes highly qualified and experienced engineers and technologists in areas such as metallurgy, welding, the design and manufacture of rotating machinery, journals, oil seals, structural engineering, production engineering, design optimisation, tolerance analysis. We also have capabilities in 3D modelling, finite element analysis, vibration and computational flow analysis, hydraulics, machine control etc.
Our team comprise highly qualified and experienced engineers and technologists in areas such as metallurgy, welding, rotating machinery, journal design, oil seal design, structural engineering, production engineering, optimising design for machining and tolerances, 3D modelling for prediction and optimisation, finite element and computational flow analysis, hydraulics, machine control etc
Jackweld has pioneered several innovative hard manufacturing processes. This ialso includes designing and developing various ground breaking machine technologies to implement the processes.
With our experienced team and industrial partners, are able to work with external clients offering an economical and low risk service, integrating the various disciplines needed to deliver practical solutions.
This technology has been developed by a consortium of UK and EU companies to weld bainitic steel railway rails, providing a step change improvement in the durability and performance of the rail weld compared to existing processes. The technology welds the rails by friction without causing any vibrations. In this way the rails remain motionless, allowing for the first time ever, large and heavy sections of rail to be friction welded together in the factory or on the track.
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Jackweld is working with a group of industrial partners to improve the quality and performance of light alloy castings including the reduction production and tooling costs. FOR MORE INFORMATION email info@Jackweld.co.uk
Learn more The innovative process has a number of
industrial advantages as follows.
· Enables
joining of dissimilar materials and metals considered to have poor weldability
using fusion processes.
· Creates narrow heat-affected zone.
· Constant
and repeatable weld characteristics due to the inherently resilient orbital
friction welding process parameters and highly repeatable process parameters
achieved with the machinery.
· Joint
preparation is minimal.
· Faster Turn-around Times, in comparison
with lead times for forging and machining.
· Increased design flexibility, supports
efficient choice of appropriate materials for specific areas of a component.
· Suitable
for diverse quantities, from single prototypes to high-volume production
· No
fluxes, filler material, or gases required.
· Environmentally
friendly process, no fumes or gases generated.
· Solid
state process, no weld porosity or slag inclusions.
· Creates cast or forge-like blanks, without expensive tooling or minimum
quantity requirements.
· Flexible manufacture of complex parts
without reductive machining, reducing tooling costs, production time and swarf
waste.
And minimises or eliminates
constitutional liquation issues that can lead to microcracking
Reduced energy usage contributing to
reducing CO2 from the supply. No need to
pre-heat and complete H2 bakeouts etc.
Compliments and expands the
exploitation of other solid-state materials processing, e.g. PM-HIP where the
control of powder cleanliness concerning interstitial elements (O+N) can have a
deleterious impact if exposed to a fusion welding cycle.
Are you sure? Cast implies a
solid-to-liquid / liquid-to-solid phase change has taken place and this is a
solid-state process.
Can also complement additive
manufacturing and could also be used to do solid-state AM similar to FSW.
The electro-motive power revolution in the
transport industry is driving the demand for improved strength and reduction in
weight of components and structures. Jackweld is working with a number of
partners looking at the entire light alloy casting line, identifying synergies
and innovations that can be exploited and looking at the following challenges:
· Improved
quality of components
· Improved
strength of components
· Reduced
weight of components
· Reduced
tooling costs
· Reduced
production costs
· Improved
manufacturing flexibility