Journal of Modern Processes in Manufacturing and Production
Volume:10 Issue: 3, Summer 2021

The purpose of this study is to identify the influence of different concentrations of heat-stable salts (oxalate, acetate, formate, succinate, glycolate) on the carbon steel corrosion in MDEA solution. Natural gas usually contains acidic gases like CO2 and H2S along with other sulphur components. These acidic gases have to be scrubbed off from the gas for environmental, operational, and economic reasons. A long-term experiment was conducted to investigate the corrosion behavior of carbon steel in HSS+MDEA solutions and surface analysis techniques (SEM, EDS) were carried out to characterize the morphologies and compositions of the surface layers. To obtain the corrosion behavior of carbon steel in different concentrations of HSS+MDEA solutions the potentiodynamic polarization tests were used. The result showed that the acetate had less corrosion effect and the oxalate had the greatest impact on corrosion of the carbon steel. According to the electrochemical results, these five heat stable salts didn’t have a significant corrosion effect on carbon steel till 5000 ppm concentration.

Magnesium alloys offer many advantages. They offer the very low density and good strength. They also offer good damping properties. One of the industries where reducing component weight in the automotive industry. That makes the magnesium alloys good candidates for these applications. Reduced weight of an automobile means also lower fuel consumption. The hexagonal closed packed structure of magnesium lends itself to strong mechanical anisotropy. In the current work, neutron diffraction was used to study the crystallographic texture developed in novel magnesium alloys during cold rolling operations. The texture was compared with that developed in the commercial AZ-31 magnesium alloy.  Tests were run at the High-Pressure-Preferred-Orientation (HIPPO) beamline at Los Alamos National Lab. The texture was then analyzed using pole figures, created using the Material Analysis Using Diffraction (MAUD) software.

Optimal path planning with optimal journey time and the motor saturation limit are two main challenges in mobile industrial robot design. The motion speed and motor saturation limit are important factors determining the required torque. Calculating the optimal torque value reduces the construction and motor selection costs. This paper proposes the theory of optimal control open-loop base model for path planning by simultaneously minimizing the journey time, wheels’ torque for industrial robots. In this study, nonlinear equations of robot motion were considered as a constraint in optimal control problems. Next, the cost function was proposed, including the torque of the left and right wheels and time-related terminal conditions and disturbance, in which the nonlinear equations of the industrial robot motion are assumed as constraints. The final equations were numerically solved, and the effectiveness of the proposed method was demonstrated by simulating and path design for industrial robots' motions along with considering motor saturation limit.

Bulk nanomaterial have several applications in automobile, aerospace, medical and manufacturing applications. These are produced by subjecting materials to severe plastic deformation (SPD) and have widely emerged as a technique for grain refinement in Al, Cu, Ti, Mg alloys with improved mechanical properties. Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP) is one such SPD technique employed to produce bulk ultra-fine grained (UFG) materials by introducing a large amount of shear strain into the materials without changing the billet shape or dimensions. FE (Finite Element) modeling of SPD processes has become an important tool for designing feasible production processes, because of its unique capability to describe the complex geometry and boundary conditions. In this proposed work, integrated SPD processes namely Extrusion + ECAP (Ex-ECAP) is proposed and the specimen is subjected to these processes in the same die set-up. The 3D finite element modeling of Al6061 was performed using metal forming software FORGE. The dies used in both the processes during the simulation of Al6061 billet include a channel angle of 900 and outer corner angle fixed at 160 with simulation performed for different plunger velocities. The simulation results depict the change in equivalent strain in the entire specimen on account of these processes. The evolution of strain at different considered cross-sections is analyzed. Also, the variation in extrusion force and energy are studied for the considered process parameters. The FE simulations greatly help in designing the dies for various experimental conditions to produce bulk nanomaterial.

The predominant method to produce ZAMAK alloys is casting. But this process is not without flaws. Factors such as low melting temperature, creep stresses, aging, and dimension change over time are the main problems in ZAMAK’s casting process. We embarked on this research to investigate the new production routes. In this regard, the powder metallurgy can be highlighted because of the non-occurrence of melting and non-solid-liquid phase changes. ZAMAK 2 and 3 are the most commonly used ZAMAK alloys. In this way, we study the comparison of ZAMAK 2 and 3 produced by powder metallurgy. The powder was prepared by the mechanical method. As we proceed, the effect of particle size, pressure, and sintering temperature will be investigated. The comparison was done in consideration of mechanical properties such as density, tensile strength, and hardness. The density of ZAMAK 2 obtained by the powder metallurgy method increases with increasing working pressure up to 400 MPa, but after this pressure, little change in density is observed. While in ZAMAK 3 the density increases with increasing pressure. The maximum ultimate stress obtained in ZAMAK 2 is approximately equal to 300 MPa, while, it is equal to 230 MPa for ZAMAK 3. In ZAMAK 2, we will see a 16.7% increase in density by selecting fine grains, but in Zamak 3, this enhancement is only equal to 7%, which indicates the intensive effect of particle size on the density obtained in ZAMAK 2.

The method of intramedullary nailing, which leads to the alignment of the diaphyseal broken bone, is one of the diaphyseal fractured bone healing novelties. The rods utilized must be strong enough to withstand the forces exerted by the transplanted bone. Today, various researchers are interested in using severe plastic deformation (SPD) methods to improve the mechanical characteristics of metals. One of the SPD procedures used in this study was repetitive corrugation and straightening (RCS) on a 316L stainless steel rod. After conducting mechanical characteristics tests on the rods produced using this approach, ABAQUS software was utilized to simulate the intramedullary nailing finite element method (FEM). The results of the experiments revealed that raising the number of pressing stages to eight significantly increases the hardness of the samples. The simulation findings revealed that the bone sample implanted by the rod manufactured by the aforementioned procedure has a higher structural hardness than the bone implanted by a basic 316L stainless steel rod under various stress conditions.