Saturday, April 21, 2012

Mehmet Özer, 030070050, 9th Week


1. Natural Adhesives (Connector)

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This term is used to include vegetable and animal based adhesives and natural gums. These include organic materials such as casein, blood, albumin, hide, bone, fish, starch, resin, shellac, asphalt, chitosan, and inorganic adhesives like sodium silicate. Their use, except for the inorganic adhesives, is mostly limited to paper , paperboard, foil, and light wood. They are inexpensive, easy yo apply, and have a long shelf life. These adhesives develop tack quickly, but have low strength properties. Most are water soluble and use water as a solvent. They are supplied as liquids or dry powders to be mixed with water. Some are dispersions in organic solvents.
( Sina Ebnesajjad, Adhesives Technology Handbook, page 49)

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Natural adhesives are derived from natural sources (e.g., plants and animals), including gums, starch, dextrin, soy flour, andcollagen.This categoryof adhesive is generally limited to low-stress applications, such as cardboard cartons, furniture, and bookbinding; or where large surface areas are involved (e.g., plywood). Inorganic adhesives are based principally on sodium silicate andmagnesium oxychloride. Although relatively low in cost, they are also low in strength—a serious limitation in a structural adhesive.
(Groover M.P., Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, and Systems 4th Edition, pp. 760)



Vegetable or plant-based adhesives – Tapioca paste is one basis for such adhesives and is used for gluing paper including envelopes, labels and postage stamps that are made to adhere by wetting the adhesive surface. Other vegetable glues are made from agar, a colloid derived from marine plants, gum arabic, from the acacia tree and from algin, derived from seaweed. Mucilage is a vegetable glue made from water-soluble gums. Starchbased adhesives made from corn, potatoes, and rice, are used for mounting wallpaper and in the manufacture of corrugated cartons.
(Bralla, J. G., Handbook Manufacturing Processes, How Products, Components and Materials Are Made, pp. 761-762)




2. Electro chemical grinding (Manufacturing method)


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Electro chemical grinding (ECG) is a combination of ECM and the grinding process. The metal is removed both by anodic dissolution as in ECM and abrasion as by a grinding wheel.

In this process, both the grinding wheel and the work piece have to be conductors of electricity. The grinding wheels employed are in general metal (phosphor bronze) bonded diamond wheels or metal bonded alumina wheels in ECM, in electro chemical grinding also, the work piece is connected to the positive terminal and wheel to the negative terminal of power supply.

(Fundamentals of metal cutting and machine tools, B. L. Juneja,Nitin Seth, p.296)

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Electrochemical grinding (ECG) is similar to electrochemical machining but replaces the relatively stationary tool with a rotating conductive grinding wheel. The wheel normally consists of aluminum oxide abrasive bonded to a metal wheel, which acts as the cathode of the electrolytic circuit. Electrolytic fluid circulates in the area where the abrasive contacts the work. A combination of electrolytic and mechanical action removes material from the workpiece but the electrolytic action predominates, accounting for about 90 percent of metal removal. Anodic dissolution of the workpiece metal leaves surface metal oxides. In conventional ECM, the flushing action of the electrolyte removes these oxides. In electrochemical grinding, the abrasive mainly functions to remove the oxide film, exposing a new metal surface to the electrolyte. The abrasive also separates the metal wheel from the work, preserving a fine (0.001 in or 0.025 mm) gap between the two. It also carries the electrolyte solution to the gap.
The process has the advantage of relatively high metal removal rates for hard metals, freedom from heat damage to the workpiece, and the ability to grind fragile parts. Plunge, surface, cylindrical, and internal grinding are all feasible with the process. However, capital costs are high and the electrolyte can be corrosive to the equipment and workpiece. The process is commonly used in sharpening carbide cutting tools, avoiding the high wear rates of expensive diamond-abrasive wheels that would otherwise be required. It is also used for grinding surgical needles, honeycomb structures, and other fragile parts. ECG is illustrated by Fig. 312a.
(Bralla, J. G., Handbook Manufacturing Processes, How Products, Components and Materials Are Made, pp. 122)



3. Induction Hardening (Manufacturing Method)


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Induction hardening is based on the generation of magnetic fields by an alternating current. When a metal component is placed inside the coil, eddy currents are induced in surface regions of the object, which in turn generate heat because of the resistance of the metal. The depth of heating depends on the strength of the magnetic field, the magnetic properties of the material, and the proximity of coils to the object. Cooling may be carried out in air or by quenching in oil or water if a deep hardened zone is required. Hardened regions up to about 5mm can be produced by the two processes ;the shallower, darker regions were produced by laser hardening. Induction hardening is easily incorporated into a production environment, has a relatively low cost, and is particularly suitable for rotationally symmetric components such as gear wheels and shafts, especially when high volumes of identical components are to be treated. Codes of practice have been written that specify the required hardness and geometry of the treated region, enabling the process be automated by using preset values.

(John C. Ion, Laser Processing of Engineering Materials, p. 224)

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Induction hardening uses induction heating to produce high temperatures at the surface, or in those areas requiring hardening. As with other processes requiring induction heating (See 7A2h, 7B4 and 7C2.), an electrical coil must be designed and fabricated to produce the heating effect in the desired location. The process is well suited for surface hardening because the depth and location of the treatment can be controlled by establishing the optimum heating time, current, frequency, power level and coil configuration. (Higher induction frequencies concentrate the heating effect more at the surface and produce shallower hardened cases; lower frequencies produce deeper hardening or even through-hardening.) After the heating cycle, which is quite rapid, the workpiece is immediately quenched. Round and cylindrical workpieces are most easily processed since simple coil shapes can be utilized. Shaft and crankshaft bearing surfaces are frequently surface hardened by induction heating. Vehicle and machine shafts and hydraulic piston rods are typical parts treated by induction hardening for improved wear resistance and fatigue life. When the operation is automated, the shafts pass through the induction coils in a timed cycle and are immediately spray quenched when they exit the coils.
(Bralla, J. G., Handbook Manufacturing Processes, How Products, Components and Materials Are Made, pp. 348-349)



4. Styrofoam (Material)


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--Polystyrene another named styrofoam is a high volume world-wide consumed plastic. It is used in many different formulations. Styrofoam is noted for its sparkling clarity, hardness, low water absorption, extreme ease of processing general purpose PS, excelent colorability, dimensional stability, and relatively low cost. This amorphous TP often competes favorably with higher priced plastics.
--In its basic crystal PS form it is brittle, with low heat and chemical resistance, poor weather resistance. High impact polystyrene is made with butadiene modifiers that provides significant improvement in impact strength and elongation over crystal polystyrene accomponied by a loss of transparency and little other property improvement.
(Dominick V. Rosato,Donald V. Rosato,Matthew V. Rosato, Plastic product material and process selection handbook, page 63)

New Answer
Styrofoam is polystyrene expanded to 42 times the original size2. It is used, usually in panel form, as a cold-temperature insulation. The panels are made by extrusion, most commonly with a dual, tandem extruder system. The first extruder heats and mixes the polystyrene with a nucleating agent, a fine powder of talc or other material, with small amounts of other materials. The output of the first extruder is passed under pressure to a second extruder, sometimes called a cooling extruder, where the liquid or gaseous blowing agent is injected. The blowing agent is usually a blend. Several key materials that may be used include: pentane, carbon dioxide, butane, and HFC- 152aI5. The blowing agent is kept under compression as it is mixed into the cooling resin. At the nozzle of the second extruder, the blended material passes through a shaped die into the open atmosphere where the blowing agent expands, changing the extrudate to a foam. Often, an annular die is used, creating a tube of foamed polystyrene. The tube is slit and the foamed material is flattened to thick sheet or slab form. Slabs are further cooled and cut to standard lengths.
(Bralla, J. G., Handbook Manufacturing Processes, How Products, Components and Materials Are Made, pp. 761-762)



5. Crushing (Manufacturing Method)


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The major equipments are mortar and pestle, heavy drop hammer, and jaw crushers. In jaw crushing the crushing chamber is formed by one fixed jaw and one movable jaw between stationary side support walls. The movable jaw is mounted eccentrically at the top and is driven by a motor via a flywheel. During the crushing process, the material is drawn down into the tapered crushing chamber as a result of the eccentric jaw motion and is reduced in size by compression and frictional forces. In addition, the angle between the jaws can be altered to give optimum adjustment to the crushing of the material. The final crushed product particle size can be adjusted to values between 15 and 1 mm by adjusting the gap at the base of the jaws. The standards jaws and side walls are manufactured from hardened steel. If the feed material is very abrasive or particular impurities are to be avoided, these components are also available in stainless steel or hard tungsten carbide. If the fixed jaw is removed, access is given to the crushing chamber and the equipment can be cleared easily. In addition, the connection of an exhaust device allows work to be carried out in dust free conditions.
(Upadhyaya G. S., Powder metallurgy technology, p. 33)

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Crushing is most often effected by a slow application of strong force. A jaw crusher has a swinging plate or “jaw” which is connected to a double toggle that is moved by an eccentric on a large flywheel. Each forward movement of the jaw exerts heavy pressure on the material between the jaws and breaks up the large pieces. Crushed pieces fall between the jaws. Large lumps may be hit several times as they work their way down and out of the machine. See Fig. 11D1.
 Gyratory crushers use a cone-shaped pestle that moves eccentrically in a bowl-shaped hopper. Crushed pieces fall to the bottom and exit through the hopper. A gyratory crusher is illustrated in Fig. 1 1 D 1 - 1. These machines are widely used in the first-step crushing of rock materials. Both jaw and gyratory crushers - of an appropriate size - may be used for primary and secondary crushing. Gyratory crushers with wide-angle cone-shaped pestles are often called cone crushers. Cone crushers are used more for secondary crushing. Roll crushers, described below, are also primarily used for secondary crushing, except with coal and other friable materials.
(Bralla, J. G., Handbook Manufacturing Processes, How Products, Components and Materials Are Made, pp. 454-455)

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