The large warping deformation at platform of turbine blade directly affects the forming precision. In the present research, equivalent warping deformation was firstly presented to describe the extent of deformation at...The large warping deformation at platform of turbine blade directly affects the forming precision. In the present research, equivalent warping deformation was firstly presented to describe the extent of deformation at platform. To optimize the process parameters during investment casting to minimize the warping deformation of the platform, based on simulation with Pro CAST, the single factor method, orthogonal test, neural network and genetic algorithm were subsequently used to analyze the influence of pouring temperature, shell mold preheating temperature, furnace temperature and withdrawal velocity on dimensional accuracy of the platform of superalloyDD6 turbine blade. The accuracy of investment casting simulation was verified by measurement of platform at blade casting. The simulation results with the optimal process parameters illustrate that the equivalent warping deformation was dramatically reduced by 21.8% from 0.232295 mm to 0.181698 mm.展开更多
The role of substrate roughness in ZnO nanowire(NW) arrays hydrothermal growth has been systematically studied.Six silicon substrates with different roughness by chemical etching have been selected to grow ZnO NW ar...The role of substrate roughness in ZnO nanowire(NW) arrays hydrothermal growth has been systematically studied.Six silicon substrates with different roughness by chemical etching have been selected to grow ZnO NW arrays hydrothermally after sputtering 5-nm-thick ZnO seed layer as catalyst.The as-grown samples reveal that average diameters and number densities of ZnO NW arrays are inversely proportional to the increasing substrate roughness observed by atomic-force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy.Furthermore,the theoretically derived equations based on nucleation with the Gibbs free energy to describe relations of substrate roughness versus average NW diameter and NW number density match well with experimental results.Research results in this paper can be used to control the number density and the average diameter of ZnO NW arrays by alternating substrate roughness.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51371152)
文摘The large warping deformation at platform of turbine blade directly affects the forming precision. In the present research, equivalent warping deformation was firstly presented to describe the extent of deformation at platform. To optimize the process parameters during investment casting to minimize the warping deformation of the platform, based on simulation with Pro CAST, the single factor method, orthogonal test, neural network and genetic algorithm were subsequently used to analyze the influence of pouring temperature, shell mold preheating temperature, furnace temperature and withdrawal velocity on dimensional accuracy of the platform of superalloyDD6 turbine blade. The accuracy of investment casting simulation was verified by measurement of platform at blade casting. The simulation results with the optimal process parameters illustrate that the equivalent warping deformation was dramatically reduced by 21.8% from 0.232295 mm to 0.181698 mm.
基金supported by Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education with the 2012 Project of Overseas Research of Distinguished Young and Middle-aged Teachers and Principalsthe University of Alabama startup fund
文摘The role of substrate roughness in ZnO nanowire(NW) arrays hydrothermal growth has been systematically studied.Six silicon substrates with different roughness by chemical etching have been selected to grow ZnO NW arrays hydrothermally after sputtering 5-nm-thick ZnO seed layer as catalyst.The as-grown samples reveal that average diameters and number densities of ZnO NW arrays are inversely proportional to the increasing substrate roughness observed by atomic-force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy.Furthermore,the theoretically derived equations based on nucleation with the Gibbs free energy to describe relations of substrate roughness versus average NW diameter and NW number density match well with experimental results.Research results in this paper can be used to control the number density and the average diameter of ZnO NW arrays by alternating substrate roughness.