Compared to conventional cutting, the processing of materials by electrochemical machining offers some technical advantages like high surface quality, no thermal or mechanical impact on the work piece and preservation...
Compared to conventional cutting, the processing of materials by electrochemical machining offers some technical advantages like high surface quality, no thermal or mechanical impact on the work piece and preservation of the microstructure of the work piece material. From the economic point of view, the possibility of process parallelization and the absence of any process-related tool wear are mentionable advantages of electrochemical machining. In this study, based on experimental results, it will be evaluated to what extent the electrochemical machining is technically and economically suitable for the finish-machining of particle- reinforced aluminum matrix composites (AMCs). Initial studies showed that electrochemical machining - in contrast to other machining processes - has the potential to fulfil demanding requirements regarding precision and surface quality of products or components especially when applied to AMCs. In addition, the investigations show that processing of AMCs by electrochemical machining requires less energy than the electrochemical machining of stainless steel. Therefore, an evaluation of electrochemically machined AMCs - compared to stainless steel - from a technical and an economic perspective will be presented in this paper. The results show the potential of electro-chemically machined AMCs and contribute to the enhancement of instruments for technical-economic evaluations as well as a comprehensive innovation control.
There are various opportunities to improve the adhesion between polymer and metal in metal-plastic composites. The addition of a bonding agent which reacts with both joining components at the interfaces of the composi...
There are various opportunities to improve the adhesion between polymer and metal in metal-plastic composites. The addition of a bonding agent which reacts with both joining components at the interfaces of the composite can enhance the bonding strength. An alternative method for the adjustment of interfaces in metal-plastic composites is the specific surface structuring of the joining partners in order to exploit the mechanical interlock effect. In this study the potential of using an adhesion promoter based on twin polymerization for metal-plastic composites in combination with different methods of mechanical surface treatment is evaluated by using the tensile shear test. It is shown that the new adhesion promoter has a major effect when applied on smooth metal surfaces. A combination of both mechanical and chemical surface treatment of the metal part is mostly just as effective as the application of only one of these surface treatment methods.
At present, the use of clinching is mainly restricted to thin sheet metal. Here the joining technology is used for assemblies in mass production due to its great coast efficiency. However, the branches of industry wor...
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Hot sheet metal forming is gaining in importance in many fields, because of its capability to produce more complex components than possible with cold forming. Hot forming is also used to influence the final material p...
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The significance of technology platforms as interconnected networks of technological knowledge is steadily growing in diversified companies. The reason is that technology platforms support diversified companies to han...
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The significance of technology platforms as interconnected networks of technological knowledge is steadily growing in diversified companies. The reason is that technology platforms support diversified companies to handle the conflicting priorities of fulfilling the customer demand for individualized innovations, while generating company-wide technological synergies. Hence, the success of diversified companies can be significantly affected by technology platforms and a consistent framework that enables the description of technology platform strategies. In practice however, a low degree of systematization regarding the description of technology platforms and their strategies is noticeable, leading to unsustainable platform concepts. The reason is that there is no established opinion in theory about the relevant strategy elements and subsequently no cohesive strategy framework, which supports the description of technology platform strategies. Therefore, in this paper we develop a consistent strategy framework for technology platforms in diversified companies, in order to describe sustainable strategies for technology platforms.
The milling technology is characterized as the most important manufacturing technology in a variety of industries. Moreover, recent developments in hardware and software issues have increased technology's complexi...
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The milling technology is characterized as the most important manufacturing technology in a variety of industries. Moreover, recent developments in hardware and software issues have increased technology's complexity which is, beyond others, caused by different milling variants and a high number of different milling tools. Milling tools are responsible for a significant cost position in manufacturing driven companies which is shown in the paper by an industry wide survey. Due to the costly and wasteful production it can be shown that this is a significant cost driver. This paper introduces an integrated life cycle oriented approach for the standardization and optimization (including the reuse of tools by standardized repair processes) of milling tools in order to enhance the life cycle of milling tools, reduce overall costs and therefore raise the company's sustainability.
A new method for the automated extraction, recognition and interpretation of forming features is presented. The motivation is to apply knowledge based engineering (KBE) methods more intensively on process planning pro...
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A new method for the automated extraction, recognition and interpretation of forming features is presented. The motivation is to apply knowledge based engineering (KBE) methods more intensively on process planning procedures for forging, tube hydroforming and sheet metal forming. With a new thinning method three-dimensional (3D) CAD data is reduced to a 1D skeleton graph. By curvature based segmentation of the surface and the neighborhood relations further information are provided. Depending on the gained classification, analyzing algorithms can be performed again with an adapted level of detail. Herewith the process planning can be supported on a much higher level than before. Video abstract Download : Download video (3MB)
Vertical axis wind turbines have experienced a renewed impulse during the last few years, with important research efforts focused on them. This work is focused in the development of new blade designs capable of notabl...
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Vertical axis wind turbines have experienced a renewed impulse during the last few years, with important research efforts focused on them. This work is focused in the development of new blade designs capable of notably reduce their manufacturing cost and, consequently, improve global profitability. Thanks to the aerodynamic and structural analyses that have been carried out, a final blade design has been achieved. It is based on the use of hydroforming manufacturing techniques with metal sheets, creating 3 meters blades to be used in a turbine capable of produce about 1kW. First estimations show that with the positive effects of a mass use and production (economies of scale), such metal blades have a 90 % reduction potential in their production costs compared to fibre-reinforced ones for single turbines.
Due to the increase of blisk (blade integrated disk) demands instead of the conventional fir-tree design in current aero-engine concepts there is a high resource-driven need for a comprehensive evaluation of different...
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Due to the increase of blisk (blade integrated disk) demands instead of the conventional fir-tree design in current aero-engine concepts there is a high resource-driven need for a comprehensive evaluation of different process chain alternatives for blisk manufacture. Therefore, in this paper different manufacturing chains consisting of roughing, pre-finishing and finishing/polishing are compared to each other by the example of a HPC-blisk out of Inconel 718. Beside conventional milling and electrochemical machining also alternative manufacturing technologies like wire-based laser cladding, water jet cutting and automated polishing are taken into account. Based on a technological analysis an adaptable methodology is introduced, which allows an independent economical assessment of different process chains regarding e.g. company-specific boundary conditions or different production quantities.
This paper introduces a new concept for flexible motion planning and control of industrial robots. Instead of a closed monolithic architecture, an open service-based framework is proposed. The services can be run hard...
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