CAD/CAE application in centering EDM machine design
The centering EDM machine can be completed online centering hole processing. Traveling by the high speed line feed mechanism, low speed line feed mechanism, rotating body, lifting body, auto body for baseball, Swing components, such as buffer baffle. The advantage of this approach is: a small device, processing consistency, and efficient processing, process automation, and effective in the elimination round billet rolling wear puncher into a capillary formed by the iron handle. In order to design the machine, the CAD/CAE technology, basing on the conception of global structure, dwelling on selecting motor, 3D modeling with solidworks, dynamic simulation with cosmosmotion, and analysis the key parts using finite element method were presented.
Development of new material and heat treatment for tools ensuring high performance in hot seamless tube rolling
Abstract A new technology has been developed to improve the life of tools used for high temperature steel rolling in seamless tube manufacturing. It is a joint technology combining a new chemical composition and a special heat treatment. The new steel tool material has high Cr, C, and Ni contents compared with those of the conventional tools in order to increase the volume fraction of carbide which increases wear resistance. Through the new heat treatment, the macroscopic distribution pattern of eutectic carbide changes from meshlike to granular form increasing resistance against crack propagation. The validity of the results in the laboratory has been verified on the production line.
Phase characterisation of simulated high burn-up UO2 fuel
Abstract To determine the lattice constant variation with burn-up and the oxidation behaviour at high temperatures, simulated UO2-spent fuels with burn-ups up to 200 GWd tM−1 were prepared by cold pressing and sintering and characterised by X-ray diffraction analysis and thermogravimetry. The fcc-lattice parameter of the sintered samples determined at room temperature, showed a continuous decrease with the simulated burn-up. During oxidation the conversion of the simulated fuels to the (U,FP)4O9 and (U,FP)3O8-type phases was strongly delayed when the simulated burn-up exceeded 80 GWd tM−1. Also, at high burn-ups (>100 GWd tM−1), large fractions of the (U,FP)4O9-type phase remained untransformed to (U,FP)3O8 after prolonged exposure to air at 950–1000°C. This suggests a marked widening of the (U,FP)4O9-phase field when the amount of substituted uranium atoms exceeds values of about 8%.