TRIED & TRUE LIGHTWEIGHT SOLUTIONS
Our work addresses a wide range of markets with developed and deployable award-winning technologies. Our products and processes are commercialized to solve market problems, reduce process costs, and enable advanced lightweight components and vehicle systems.
Loukus Tech specializes in the creation of hybrid MMC products with newly developed high temperature alloys. The technology readiness level (TRL) of existing alloys is 5-6. Using in-house equipment and tooling, Loukus Tech brings the new alloys to a TRL of 6.
Loukus Tech owns multiple patents around MMC lightweight brake products for vehicles; including electric vehicles, motorcycles and heavy trucks.
Our team addresses the deficiencies of cast iron brakes, of stir cast MMC brakes, and of ceramic brakes. Cast iron is too heavy; stir cast MMC cannot…
Loukus Tech’s functional reinforced gradient (FRG) technology was used to develop an MMC Diamond Blade for concrete cutting applications. For this application, Loukus Tech engineers field-tested the blades and used this real-world data to further optimize blade materials and design. Testing was…
Similar to the development of selectively-reinforced composite materials, LT has developed process techniques to manufacture lightweight structures with dissimilar metals. Also called “bi-metal,” the structure utilizes one metal in a certain region to serve a particular need, and is surrounded or…
Loukus Tech is a technology development company. In order to bring products to market quickly, it’s often imperative that the product and process are developed simultaneously. At Loukus Tech, we custom-design process equipment to fit the needs of the product. This co-invention of the product and…
Natural gas presents a great opportunity for American motorists. It’s clean, it’s low cost, and it’s plentiful. Thanks to fracking and horizontal drilling technologies, America is now a global leader in natural gas production. Plus, it’s distributed to 60 million homes in America.
So, why isn’t it…
Loukus Tech has the capabilities to produce A206 reinforced with in-situ TiB2 nanoparticles. Nano-MMCs containing up to 5 vol % TiB2 show excellent dispersion of reinforcement throughout the matrix grains. Higher vol % TiB2 reinforced A206 can be produced by the introduction of micron-scale TiB2…
Loukus Tech has developed a fifth wheel no-lube top plate that is durable with an equal life to the fifth wheel itself. The metal matrix composite no-lube top plate has built-in lubrication from graphite and tungsten disulfide. The solution is a complete plate integration application.
Loukus Tech, through an ARPA-e funded project, developed novel metal matrix composite bushing materials. These bushing materials were designed and built using consistent and controllable furnace temperatures (+/- 2 degrees F) up to 3000F (1650C) with integrated servo control winders and sizing…