Advanced Materials and Processing

Advanced Materials and Processing
You are given an engineering material, part of an engineering device, or the full device. It can be a water pump, a valve, or a rim of a tyre.
You are required to:
The Engineering Alloy component I have selected is a gate valve housing, these are made out of many different alloys and can have a few different manufacturing processes to create them depending on their environment and cost to manufacture.
See picture below of an example;

• Describe the component
• Materials discussion
• Processing discussion

(2,500 words).