With a design for an advanced radiator boasting a number of sustainable benefits, Callaghan Forsyth won CSIRO’s inaugural Titanium Challenge. Forsyth is an industrial design student at Swinburne University.
[Pictured alongside: CSIRO’s John Barnes (L) congratulates the Titanium Challenge winner, Callaghan Forsyth.]
The judges felt that his entry effectively demonstrated how an item, which is currently made from a number of environmentally unfriendly materials using a laborious process, can be transformed by use of direct manufacturing.
Forsyth’s entry (L) also showed resistance to corrosion, superior performance at high temperatures, and end of life recycling benefits offered by titanium.
"My submission is an intricate radiator for a water-cooled system with fluid compartments and integrated cooling fins, made in one piece," noted Forsyth.
His entry provided a strong argument for environmental benefits of his design, as well as the simplified manufacturing process.
Forsyth’s winning design will be made up as a prototype by Formero.
The runner-up was the design for a Prandtl-attack tube (L), developed by Michael Bowen, a student of mechanical engineering from The University of Adelaide.
"My design combines a pitot-static tube and the measurement of angle of attack into a single instrument – a Prandtl-attack tube, used to measure the three-dimensional velocity vector of an oncoming fluid," says Bowen.
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