The Institute of Technical Acoustics offers consumers a tool for ultrasonic cutting of materials under a manufacturing agreement, and is looking for partners to conclude a distribution services agreement.

Appointment: for cutting a cloth of automobile tires, polymeric and other materials.

Scope: automotive industry (production of tires for cars and trucks, tractors, construction and road special equipment, heavy vehicles), food industry, light industry.

The ultrasonic assembly of the system includes piezoceramic rings that convert electrical vibrations into mechanical vibrations, a booster designed to reduce or increase the amplitude of vibrations, and a knife itself made of a special titanium alloy. In this case, a wear-resistant titanium nitride coating can be applied to the working tool.

The physical basis of the ultrasonic cutting process is a significant reduction in the cutting force during vibrations with the ultrasonic frequency of the cutting tool. So, when high-frequency oscillations of 20..40 kHz are applied to the tool with a vibration amplitude of the cutting tool within 10..40 µm, the cutting force decreases by 10 times.

Advantages: reduction of cutting force and elimination of sticking of cut materials, high productivity, wear resistance.

Implemented by: OAO Belshina (Bobruisk).

The activities of the Institute correspond to the priority areas of scientific, technical and socio-economic development of the country and the Vitebsk region. The Institute conducts fundamental and applied research, as well as carries out scientific and technical developments within the framework of the state scientific research programs, the regional scientific and technical program, republican and international projects of the Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research (BRFFR), individual projects and grants in fields of semiconductor physics, magnetoelectric phenomena, ultrasonic vibrations, thermoelastic phase transformations, etc.

Scientific directions of the Institute:
- study of the impact of concentrated energy flows on condensed media and physical processes;
- development of methods and technologies for obtaining materials for functional and special purposes.

Under the State Scientific Institution “Institute of Technical Acoustics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus”, a branch of the Republican Center for Technology Transfer was established, the main activities of which are:
- support for innovation and technology transfer in the field of using concentrated energy flows (ultrasound, laser radiation, high frequency electromagnetic fields, ion-plasma flows, high-temperature synthesis) on the structure and properties of condensed media; synthesis of new composite, structural and ceramic materials with specified physical and mechanical properties in an ultrasonic field; metal processing by thermal methods, pressure and powerful ultrasound; development of new instruments and equipment, creation of new information technologies;
- promoting the development of innovative entrepreneurship and expanding international partnerships in the field of innovation of scientific developments;
- assistance in the implementation of state policy in the field of small and medium-sized innovative businesses in the creation of new technologies, the development of new instruments and equipment.

The Institute established the Republican Center for Ultrasound Technologies, which is an interdisciplinary scientific and technical center (cluster) of advanced scientific research. The center was established with the aim of developing new highly efficient processes and materials processing devices, creating new functional materials to improve the quality of manufactured products, reduce costs and improve the safety of production using powerful ultrasound. The expected scientific results of the work of the center are aimed at obtaining new scientific knowledge about the impact of acoustic impacts on:
- structure formation and properties of materials;
- technological processes;
- thermoelastic phase transformations in materials with shape memory.

The expected practical results are aimed at mastering new technologies and developing unique equipment with a high export potential.

Consumers interested in purchasing an ultrasonic cutting tool under a manufacturing agreement.

Partners interested in purchasing an ultrasonic material cutting tool under a distribution services agreement.