Surface Navy 2024: US Navy looks to accelerate cold spray applications

Surface Navy 2024: US Navy looks to accelerate cold spray applications

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10 January 2024

by Michael Fabey

Cold spray process applies powdered metal at a highly accelerated velocity – the speed of sound or faster – on a surface using an applicator and nozzle quickly and effectively. (Janes)

The US Navy (USN) is seeking to expand its use of cold spray technology to repair and maintain its platforms and improve fleet readiness, Dan Stanley of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) engineering directorate technology branch told Janes .

“We’ve made some good headway with cold spray in the navy,” Stanley told Janes during interview in advance of the Surface Navy Association (SNA) National Symposium 2024, which started on 9 January

“We’re keeping up that momentum,” he said. “We’ve been very aggressive to leverage real world opportunities to show where cold spray is advantageous. We’ve not been as risk adverse. We’ve been assessing the technical risk in opportunities to show in the real world what cold spray can do.”


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