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Special Issue
112008
137-1 42
E E R I N G
Sciences 11 !he Polish
Chosen
aspects
of thermo-mechanical
phenomena
in
resin bonded sands
by
use
of Hot
Distortion tests
Z.
Fgnaszak"
~aboratorium
CADICAE
Technologii
Matcriatowych, Zaklad
Odiewnictwa,Politechnika
Poznaitska, ul.Piotrowe
3,60-965
Poznati,Polska
Otrzy mano
14.03.2008;
zaakceptowano
do
druku
25.03.2008
Abstract
In prcscnted article the problems on thermo-mechanical phenomena. which occur in mould submitted 20 zhcrmal choc.
arc discussed.
The author t r i d to answer rhe question concerning thc uscfulncss o f Hot Distorzion tests (HD) for estimation of parametcrs necessary in data basc oTsimulation codes. which permit forecasting both strcss ficlds and location olzones mcnaccd by tcars in castings. The total Iack oh these paramcrcrs which shouId bc acccssiblc as rcmpcra!ure F~rnct ion, csp~cially in high tcrnpcm!i~rc rangc 41T rnoi~ld hcating was should,Usability of typical mcthods serving to mctal alloys (clast icily modulus, yicld. Poisson coelficicnt, dilatation cocfficicnt) is limired.
Bc-
sides sinplc cxccptions, thc rncchanical characteristics 01" mould sands (R compression, R tcnsion.R
hcnding) docsn? obhrain the elabo-rated mc!hndology and cotrespanding apparatus. Thc mc~hndotocy and cquipment. being propscd in thc
'70s
hv RCIRA, allowed to study rnnuld sand feature callcdHot
Distortion.In
this p a v r the I ID methodological basis of BClRA mcthod arc showcd. Thc modernapparatus DMA bascd on BCIRA mczhod was claboratcd and manulacturcd n fcw
ycars
ago in Poland. The author of this pawr makesrcccntIy a modification
of
DMA. Two thcrmic sources (clcctric and gascous) tosarnplc
hcating was testcd and analyscd. I t was intmduced the cxtended measurement and recording of choscn parameters. i.e, variability of tcmpraturc field in hcated sample.by
trsc o f pyromctcr and thermal camera. The analysis or rcsulrs according lo the interpretation or bchavior of quartz sands bonded by fzlranio rcsin was donc.Key
words: thcrmo-mechanical paramclcrs OF mould. test Hot Distortion, quanz sands. dcstnrcrion o f rcsin bond. ihcrmal tlilarnt ion.1. Introduction
Virtual methods in foundry and used simuln~ion sonware spwad widcr and wider. Rerativcly slowly arc dcvcloping applica-
tions
of systcms that forecasting stresses in castings and arcas of crack risk. An important reason of that situation i s unccdainly concerning high-tcmperaturc thermo-mechanical data necessary in rhese phenomena modcling. It concerns especial1 y mould materials. Mould material and mndc non-permanent moulds and corcs alwaysfulfilled important mlc in affccling on phenomena which are dcci-
sive in nspcct of casting quality. Uesemhes on materials for
moulds and corcs arc not cohcrcnt and not systematic, in nppsitc
to castinns
-
and alloys. Standard tests lor mould materials do notgive sufficicnk basis to forrnulatc its bchavior description in rhcr- ma1 conditions during mould lilling m d cas~iog solidification. Methods that turn otrt lrr hc ~ l s c f i ~ l lor alroys (modulus OF elasticity. yield limit. Poisson cocfficicnt. dilatation coefficicnk) arc not use-
ful for rnouId sand. Evcn changes in strength (Rc, Rg, Rb) in func- tion o f temperature has got any normnlizd rncthods and apparatus. Therc is Iack of parametcrs dctcrmincd in high-tcmvrature range. Somc hopc i s putting long timc an tlot Distortion (HD) tcst. well known since 30 years 14.51.
Sirnultancously the suggestion
for
apparatus, which has beenproposed
as
an
DMA
instrument, worked out in Poland, gives the opportunity for pmressionally conductedHD
research. This in- strument in original vcrsion and in vcrsionmodified
byZ.
Ig-
naszak, was applied for cornparativc studics.
In thc paper it has bccn rcfcrced to
IID
methodicalbasis,
that
were the basics of prototype instrumentBCIRA.
It
has been
tcsted and analyzed two kinds of heat sources forheating
theBCIRA
specimen. It has been introduced and widcn the range or paramc- ters recording, mainly for changes in temperature Fieldsof
heatedspecimen, mcasured by pyrornetcr and thcrmovision-camera. t t
has
been analyzed and interpreted results, for thc bchavior
OF
silica sand with furanic binder.2.
Analysis
of the thermo-mechanical
phenomena
for
sand mouId in
aspect
of
HI)
method
Thermo-mechanical interactions between casting and mould are known mainly intuitively. It is well known, that thcsc phcnom- ena determine intermediate and final statc of stresscs in casting.
In
individual cases, it can appcar thc dcformation or cvcn crackof
casting. The situation depends on alloy kind and castingshape
(blocking of contraction) and ~ h c technology of mould prcpma~ion and mould materials. Rigid moulds (permanent moulds) areequivalent to practical lack of flcxibit ity. Non-pcrrnancnt moulds (sand moulds) characterize with divcrw flexibility, depending on kind of mould marerial,
and are
made by use of conccntrated (and hardened) mould sand. It canbe
found in literature only citations for classical sources the descriptionof
rigidity withrange
fromvery high
(ccmcnt
mould-
practcaicatly not usedin
foundries) to very low (green sand conccntrated by classical mould machines, with low pressure). There arc not announced any numerical valucs.Thc bchavior
of
mould mawrialdepends
on
changeabilityof
properliesof
its components with temperature and applied load. Sintering temperalure. rcfractorincss coefficient, roasting tosses, permeability in conditions of hot air flow and hcat radiation on mould surface, that is few normalized (sometimes standardized)measures
in increased and in high temperatures, They do not allow ,to estimate searched, enumerated above thcrmo-mechanical valucs and charactcrinics.
Measure methods inspired e.g. by static compression or tension rest
for
testing o f mould materials behavior, put on test by tem- peraturc or both temperature and strcss, are rather rare [ 1,231.In fact, rcconstn~ction of ~hcrrno-mechanical conditions put on mould or
core
(heated by the liquid alloy) and study rhc assump- tions to construct suitablc apparatus, it must bc bascdon
scrics of simpIificat ions, together with sirnultancous tcst for standardization and repeatabilityof
the tests,Bctwcen methods workcd out by thc British Institutc
BCIRA,
for spccial artcntion dcscrvc this method,in
which ithas
bccn u s d heating by thcgas
and Bunscngas
burncr
.
This contact mcrhod, in which thc spccimcn was hcatcd using the block of 950'C tcmpera-rure, has
failcd.
In [4,51 it has bccn presentcd rncthodical basicsand iotcrprctation of
Hot
Distonion tests rcsultsHeating by gas burner is favourable in aspcct of high heat transfer coefficient between the Rame and thc specimen. Corre-
sponding and rcpeatable intcnsity of gas flow. constant distance of
gas
burner
to spcimen. itis a
conditionfor
stabilityof
transferred energy to each studied spccimcn.The principle
of RCIRA
testis
cmployed asan
assumption to construct polish professionalDMA
apparatus, callcdby
itscon-
structors "apparatusfor high-temperature
phenomena
testing in corcs"[6,7].
It
is
innovative
solution
fulfilling complex functionsof
meas-ure
automat It contains among olhcrs microproccssos systcm for programming heating parameters. automatic drive For specimen rnovcrnent with auto-positioning, super prccise converter for specimen position (precision t it1I
rnicromcter). Bcsidcpossibilities
of programmingusing
kcyboard belongingto
apparatus, dircct controlof
test coursc and data recording is taking place by con- nccrcdPC,
using spocial soitwarc.An
important
methodical novclty in this apparatus is applica- tionof
thc hear sourccas
an
haIogcn radiator withI
kW powcr (possibility of specimen hcating from its bclow andabovc).
Thcsecond new proposal is temperaturc measuring in area above the halogen radiator (thermocouple). Unfortunately, mcasurcd
[em-
pcraturc has not any rcfcrcncc (bcsidc thc fact of radiator working) to the temperaturc filcd of the spccirncn. The issue the author
of
thc paper has got informed and discussed with crcatorsof
DMA.
The auihor h&prcscn~cd to crcators thc rcsults of studics with mcas- ured real temperature using thermocouple locatcd insidc spccimcn6 9 1 ,
and showing small utility of such rcalized measurement.3.
Testing of thc
apparatus
and concep-
tion of its functionarity broadening
There are known
fmm
litcraturc thc typical deiormationof
BCIRA
s ~ c i m e n . The only one rcsult ofHD
tcst is thc dcforma- tion-time diagram.as
presentcd in standard BCIRA test(fig. 2)
[41.14
0
J E
ii
.-1 R
.
w s mFig. I .
Characteristic hot distortion curves Tor various resin bonded sands- original scsults from [4]. (order from left to right:Furanic, Shell-Croning. Hot Box, Cold Box)
Despite applied tcmpcraturc mcasurcmcnt
in
opcralion arca ofDMA
apparatus, it does not pcrform conditionsof
reprcscntativc samplefor
tcmpcraturcficld
in
spccimcn. Itcan
not bc prcparcd reliable relationship between spccimen dcforrnation and Icrnpera-ture.It should bctakcn mrc attcntion for ihc tcmpcraturc ficld in spcimen.
Thc
spximcn with dimcnsions I 14x25~6 rnm is put toheat radiation from lwo halogen radiators, with regulated p w c r ( 1
m900
W).Thc author o f ppcr has rcalizcd many studics (or mould sands
wilh
divcrsc
sand grains, boundcd by chemical and lhcrmal bind-crs.
Initially, rhc studics wcrc c~nductcd using awn constructedcquipmcnt. rnodeted on
BClRA
(wirh gas heating). Aftcr obtaining possibility of studies with DMA, i t has bccn continued comparativc studics. It is not known fromDMA
appararvs dcscription. how rherc wcrc dctcrmined boundary tcmpcmturcs o l spccirncn hcating, by heat radiation from 100 do 950"C.
Thc ohscwarions takcn during I ID mcasurcrncnt on DMA ap- paratus has dcrnonstmtcd, that for thc
same
kind o f bindcrarc
proceeding two pcflurhing and out-of-contml phcnomcna:influcncc of sand grains (kind of matrix), mcnning cmission cocfficicnt (c.g color and granularity) o l tcstcd moitld
sand
onamount of absorbcd cncrgy, and that causes somc rcslrictions for
methodology I-ID studics.
influence of thickness mlucc o f the spccimcn in arca o l long-
t imc hcating (e.g for mould sand with Suranic bindcr) in rcsult o l
gravitational descending o f sand grains, acquitted from bindcr constraints. which has lost its bond forcc.
I t rcsults. that [or gelting rcpcatahilizy of radiation cncrgy ab-
sorW
by
thc specimen, it is ncccssary to takc somc assumptions.If it will not bc takcn hn!o consideration. it should not bc co~nnarcd c.g bchavior o f mould sand madc o f ncw sand and regcnerntcd sand. Such restrictions do not occur by using gas burncr. as a hcat
SOUTCC.
The decrcasc in activc
s p i m c n
cross-scc~ion. in cffcct of sand grains loss. burdcn rhc rcsult o f spccimcn dcformation in thc sec-ond
gage o l hcating with largc dcfcct.Thc
phcnomcna Iikc this do not occur when using hcnting by gas burncr.This siruation induccs preparation of additional mdulc, which
makc possible heating
by
gas. This conception.mmains
idcntical mcchnnical configuration: working kngth of the spccimcn (From holdcr to load o f displaccmcnr sensor). I r is equal wirh possibility to spccimcns dcformation compnrison for both kinds nf hcating.Thc
spcimcn
is loadd by its own wcight. dcpcnding on kind of sand grains and levd o f density (for silica sand i t i s ahout 0.03Nlcm). Additionally. in place o l the loading of the sensor flangc.
point wise, i t is l o d c d thc Sorcc o f about 0, I N (fig. 2). Maximal
bending momcnt and strcsscs will occur naturally in placc OF
clamping. The quickcst dccrcasc of specim.cn strcngth Idcgcncra-
tion of resins bonds
-
joints) will occur in area o f maximal tcm- pcnturc. To draw comparativc conclusion, by using onc kind of healing, it is necessary 10 crnphasizc that changcnbil ity o f strcngth- plastic characteristics will hc prcciscly conncctcd with cxpcrimcn- ta2 conditions (spccimcn wcipht. amount o f cncrgy absorbcd by spccimcn and variability o f volumetric tcmpcraturc ficld. and that willdcpnd
on subst iiutc cocrficicnts o f ibcrmal conductivity and hcat capacity).Thc
sccondimponnnt
mtionaliza~ion o f IID mcasurcmcnt,which has bcen restcd. i s introduction of spccimcn tcmpcrnrurc rccording on oppsirc to hcatcd st~rfncc. It was acbicvcd using radiating pyromctcr Raytck. located on stand. Somc of studics wcrc
additionally instmmcntcd by thcrmovision-camera, which has
allowcd continuous rccording tcmpcralurc
ficld
onspccimcn
sur- face. T h c x rationalizations has nllowcd to conduct scrics o f stud- ies.Pip. 2. Scheme o f BCIRA test loads and chnrac~cr of tcmpcraturc curve in hcating zonc of sand sample.
4.
Study using
the
modificd
methodology
of
HD
tcsts
and analysis
of
results
Aficr achicvcmcnt o f neccssnry rnodificntions o f DMA appa- rarus (introduction o f addit ionnl gas hcat ing, with spccimcn tcm- pmturc mcasuremcnr) i t has hccn rcalizcd thc scrics of
scvcrnl
srudics. BcIow, in the first pan. it
has
hccn prcscntcd sclcctcd rcsuIts gaincd by gas heating. for rurnnic mould sands by i~sc of rcclnirncd sand and ncw sand (also silica snnd). RcsuIts (fig. 3 and5 ) hns bccn prcscnred in scqucnccs: Ax=i{t)
i
T=f(t) o m dx=f(T).I t has bccn also shown rcsu21s adcquatc to mould rcgencmtcd sand. obtaincd wirh thcmavision-camcn (irnapc and rcmwrdturc pmfilc
on
fraction of sccond bcforc destroying nF spccimcn and the coursc o f maximal rcmpcraturc during !hc wholc hcating (fig.4).On the following figurcs (fig. 5 , 6 m d 7) i t has bccn shown idcntical scqlicncc o f rcsults, for the same mould sands. making a!lowancc for that
IID
studics wctc madc using hcn~ing hy hcnrradiation, adequate for original DMh.
Whcn comparing fitst 1 ID rcsults (gas heating) for two kinds oS sand grains bondcd with thc samc kind or r~tnnic rcsin bindcs. it
can bc obsctvcd cvidcnt infltrcncc o f Ihc stdc o l emin for rcpcncr- atcd sand on character of st~rdicd phcnomcnn. It has hccn ohtaincd thc cffcct of flcxibility o f thc sysrcm grain-rcsio bindcr (s11ic:i- f u m i c ) in final stagc o f dcrormntion.
Furanic sand with ncw sand has bccn sight lcss rcsislam on thermal dcgradntion. I t tcstifics on significant contribulion of adhe- sion phenomena conncctcd with thc stntc o f rcclnimcd snnd grains.
not only for strcngth in arnbicnl tcmpcrafurc (lowcr Kflcx for this mould sands than Tor mould sands with ncw sand).
Fig. 3. Hot Distortion curvcs obtained by gas heating
for
lir-ranic quartz
sandsby
usc o f rcclaimcrl foundrysand
as
thc matrix.a)
Ax
= f(t) iT
= f(t), b) Crx=f(T).Fig. 4. 7hcmal imaging
by
V50
camera. a) thermal image,b)
temperature
prolilc invenical
middle linc of snrnple, c) ct~rvcof
maximal sarnplc lernperaturc recorded during wholc limc tcsl
( I 88
s).
Fig.5. Hot Distortion curves obtained by gas hcating for
furanic sands
by useof
ncw quartz sand as the matrix. a) Ax = 1(2)i
T
= f(t),
b)Ax
=
f(T)
The rcsulrs o l
rcrnvnturc
ficld in erca offlarnc
operation orintensive hcat radiation indicates
on
diffcrcnt incrcasc a lT=f(t)
and different rcrnpcnture fields in thc final rnomcnt of the spccimenusing
gasbumcr
Sor hcn~ing. It wilt nor procccd thc perturbationarrccting
on deformationrcsitl!
(dccrcnsing in spccirncn thickness).dcsrruczion. ~ n d
this
the reasonfor
diffcrcnt dynamic o fthc
Ax=f(t).
Thc inRtlcnccof
kind of thc hcat sourcc on I I D studicsresult
is
wclE
visiblc.11 wouId bc ncccssary to achicvc stabilizalion of I ID wudics conditions. Tbc sclcction of thc rest with radiation
(halogn
) bcnt- ing catlscs accclcratcd destruction o f layers wirh rhc highcst tcm- pcra!urcs and falling "rnin ofsand
grains", with lowering of spcci- rncn rhickacss(cf. fig.7n).
If
this
phcnomcnon wile occur (nl ways insccond
halfof
hcat- ing period) valucsof
rcgislcrcd sinccthis
momentdeformation, do
not conccrn ~ h c wholc
cross-scction
o f 1h.c specimen (6x25mrn) andarc
in
principle Tcw valuahlc.Fig.
6.llot
Distortion curves obtained hy radiation hcnting for furanic quanz sands by use o f rcclairncd Foundry sand as n matrix.a
-
bx=f(t) iT=i(!).
b-
Ax=f(T).
5.
Summary
Thc studics has provcd, that modifications rcalizcd by
thc
author
of
pnpcr, about which wcrethc
crcatorsof
DMA inlorrncd (may 200S), sIlows to makcthc
comparison both kinds of hcating (by gas hurncr and halogen hcat radiation). This modification allows quick cxchangc o f hcating systcm. Applicationof
pyromctcrand thcrmovision-cnmcra, with irs own recording sysrcrns, allows
analysis of tcmpcraturc ficld
changcs
in spccimcn.If
we considcr thc rcsults o fI
ID. ilhas
bccn proved,that the
Full analysis
of
behavior of furanic mould sands is possihle only byFig. 7. Thermal imaging by V50 camcra for, a
-
thcrrnal irnagc, h-
zcrnpcraturc. profile in vcrtical middtc linc of snmplc, c-
curvc
or
maximalsarnplc tcmpcnturc
recordcd during wholc iimc tcn(16.4 s).
Thc
~ n u r b a t i o n likc [hisoccurs
always whcn i tis
npplicd rii-diation heating. If
docs
il occtjs. vatucs of rccordcd dcfortnalions will not allowthc
whotc spccirncn cross-scclion. and dcformnt ions arc in fact fcw valuahlc.Quickcr
dcgcncrntion of mould sand can be conncctcd with prcscncc ofoxygen
form a~mosphcric air inarca
o f rcsin dcgcncrotian.
I t has bccn provcd ;in significant influcncc or kind o f origin o f
]Litcratusa
the silica sand grains on thcrmo-mcchanicat
rcsponsc
of
mould material, Mouldsand
ohtaincd from rcpncrazcd s A d from foundry with 100% application of furanic rcsin hinders and mcchanical rcgencntion (dry, bywcak
Mction o f grains)is
chamrcrizcdby
anothcr
coursc
o f dcgmdation o f mechanical characteristic w i ~ h ternFraturc.Thc
dcgradationproceeds
in longcr timc and with diffcrcnl dynamics.Such ohscrvat ion only partially can
he
confirmed for classical hcating by radiation. likc this applicd in original DMA. The wholccurvc in
IIQ,
cspccially its sccond half,can
not bc thc basisro
cstimatc thcrmo-mcchanicnl fcarurcs o f mould sand. P ~ i a l l y , thc h a ~ i s likc this can
hc
1 ID curvc obtain4 from gas burncr hcating. with thc rcscrvation. that dcgradation occurs in conditions o fflame
atmosphcrc (dilficult acccss of oxygen).
I t has hccn provcd ples~icity o f firranic mouId sand obtaincd from 1006 rcclairncd sand. 'Thc fcalurc likc this was not obscrvcd when spccimcns madc using o f this sand wcrc tcstcd using classi-
cal DMA mclhorl. AT1 1hc carlicr crfcctuatcd studies with
applica-
tion o f rhis clnssical rncthodology. cnn bcc anaEyzcd sincc the rnomcnt o f starting dccrcasing o f spccimcn thickness.[I] S.N.Ramnttan and olhcrs, ThcrmaI Distort ion in Prnccss Con-
arol o f ChcmicaIly-Bondcs Sands. AFS Transact ions 1997. pa-
p r
no 152,152-165.121 L.Lcwandowski: Masy
formicrskici
rd7cniowc.PWK
Wnr- szawa (1991 ).[3J
Z.Samsonowicz : Porniay przcpuszc7.lnoSci mas furmicrskich wwysokich
tempcmmrach. Zcsqty Naukoic 1'01. \Vroclnw- skicj, Mcchanika IX. Nr 56.1963.93,
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Wybrane aspckty
zjawisk terrno-mcchanicznych
m
masach wiqzanych Qwicq furanowq
podczas realisacji
tcst6w
Hot Distortion
Streszczcnie
W artykulc ombwiono zagadnienia odnosyce sic do zjaivisk ~crmorncchanictnych jakic aachodL~ w poddancj szokorvi cieplnernu formic piaskoivej. Starano sic odpow-icdzicc na pyanic d o r y c ~ ~ c c pmydatnoSci hadah I lot Distortion (I !I)) do uscowania dohon~ paramc- trbw niczbednych w 'bazie danych w systcmach syrnulacyjnych, prognozujqcych napn$cnia \v odlcwvach i polotcnic strcf 7agroionycli p~knivciami. Stlvicrdzono calkorviry b n k tych parametrciiv. kldrc por\@inny
hyi:
dost~pnc w funkcji lcmpentuv, z\rrtaszcm w rakrcsic wysokotrmperaiurowym, do jakich nagrxwn sic Sur~na, I'rzydntnoSC ~ncrocl j:!kic spri!\vdirAi,jq sic dtn mctnli (modut sprt;@stoSci. grmicn ptastycznoSci, wsp6lczynni k I'oissonn, \vsr.spblcqnniL dylarac.ji) jcsl znikoma. ZrniennoiC \vytrzymnloScC mas I'urrnicrskich(k.,
R,. R,) w litnkcji tcmperatury. porn pqjedynczymi wviqtkami, nic doczckaly siq unormowanych mcrod i sloso\vnej aparatup. Mctodologia i npnra-tura jaka pojawita sic w tatach 70-rych. opracowanc przcz BCIRA. pozwalaty na przcprowadzcnia hadail ccchy masy zwanej I lot Distor- tion. W artykuIe naSwicilono podstawy mctodycznc I I!) jnkiu lcgly u podstaw mctody UCIRA. W knju pnrq lat tcmu zostnt y p r u d ~ r k o -
wany nowoczcsny aparat