Focus
VCAMM operates as a ‘portal', providing businesses with managed access to Australia's considerable expertise in the disciplines of advanced materials and advanced manufacturing technologies.
VCAMM offers a range of services and opportunities to business:
- Project management
- Research and development
- Equipment and testing
- Expertise broking
- Knowledge transfer and skills networking
- Access to public funding
- Partnership formation and attraction of capital investment
Technical capabilities
Within VCAMM's scientific network, there is a full range of world-class analytical, testing and simulation equipment and facilities. VCAMM can arrange access to this equipment to help design, model, characterise, test and validate, from the nano-scale upward. Material characterisation, mechanical testing, stress analysis, surface analysis and production modelling across all of the material boundaries (composites, ceramics, metals & polymers) can be performed.
Extensive research has been and continues to be conducted on the Quickstep Process on a QS5 machine installed at Deakin University under the VCAMM umbrella.
Key personnel
- Brad Dunstan, VCAMM CEO
- Sam Davis, Programme Manager
- Dr Bronwyn Fox, Head of Composites Research
Key clients
- Quickstep Technologies Pty Ltd
- DSTO (Defence Science and Technology Organisation)
- ADA (Australian Defence Apparel)
- Holden Australia
- HARD Technologies
- Micro Heat Technology
University partners
- Deakin University
- Monash University
- Swinburne University of Technology
- RMIT University of Technology
- University of New South Wales
- University of Technology Sydney
- Major research partner is the CSIRO (Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization).
Innovations include the development of new polymer-ceramic impact resistant material, non-adhesive joining of carbon-fibre, new composite manufacturing techniques for composite materials, advanced surface treatments, laser technologies for advanced composite manufacturing and the development of new signal receiving materials.