A METHOD OF SIMULTANEOUS QUENCHING BY THE INDUCTION OF THE DRIVER'S TEETH

A METHOD OF SIMULTANEOUS QUENCHING BY THE INDUCTION OF THE DRIVER'S TEETH

TEODOR LEUCA , GABRIEL CHEREGI

Key words:  Electromagnetic field coupled with the thermal one, numerical shaping

This paper presents a method of simultaneous quenching of the eddy currents of the driver's teeth. The method has some evident advantages as compared to the individual treatment of the driver's teeth. Examination of the heated piece, which has been treated, requires thermal diffusion problem solving coupled with the problem of the eddy currents. The results obtained are being presented.

1. THERMAL DI 414o1418e FFUSION PROBLEM

The diffusion of the thermal field is defined by the following equation,

(10)

where c is the volumetric heat capacity, l is the heat conduction and p is the density of the power volume, that coverts the electromagnetic shape into heat. To the equation are being added the limitation condition

l (11)

and the temperature initial condition: .

Time discretization of the equation (10) is done by Crank-Nicholson technique, and the space discretization, by the method of the finished element.

2. COUPLING THE THERMAL DI 414o1418e FFUZION PROBLEM WITH THAT OF THE EDDY CURRENTS

Material data of the eddy currents problem (B-H characteristic and resistivity) depend on the temperature, whereas material data of the thermal problem depend on the outcome of the eddy currents (power density) and the temperature (thermal capacity and conduction). For this reason, for each time frame allocated to the thermal problem, it comes back to the eddy currents and diffusion problems, the material data being corrected. If there is no major correction, another time spacing will be taken. If there is any time instability whatsoever, then the time spacing deminishes.

3. APPLICATION

Simultaneous quenching of the driver's teeth has some significant advantages in comparison to their individual quenching:

- time required for quenching a driver diminishes N times, where N is the number of the driver's teeth;

- to the same value of the current, the supply votage increases N times, and this is agreed in order to produce the high-frequency supply equipment.

- due to the periodicity of the electromagnetic and thermal field, the quenching obtained is uniform for all teeth.;

- the produced heat in order not to be diffused useless to the neighbouring teeth, so the method is efficient. (nu are sens fraza) ??????

In case of the high gear module, an inductor was made with the agency of which a single tooth was queched. The new method of simultaneous quenching of the driver's teeth consists in creating a system of coils in order to wrap all the drivers' teeth, similar to the wrapping of the common mode engine rotor with N poles. It is conceived in such a manner to be possible to change one one gear with another. So, unlike the electrical engine case, the frontal part of the coil's heating system looks like a funnel that allows the driver to fit in (fig. 1).

Fig. 1 High-efficiency quenching appliance

Results obtained in case of the inductor coil with circulary section conductor

I have chosen the current density of 15 A/mm², with the frequency of 8000 Hz. In case of the structure with the circulary inductor there will be a current of : 2649,45, because the the circulary area of the conductor is: 176,63 mm².

In case of the circulary conductor gear we have the following field lines (Fig. 2), set out for the time t = 21,28 s, in the initial phase 0:

Temperature maps for the time 0.1 si 21.28 sec (Fig. 3):

Results obtained in case of the inductor with rectangular section conductor

The same graphics are set up in case of the rectangular inductor (Fig. 4)

For the rectangular section inductor, we have the following maps of temperatures recorded in the tooth (fig. 5):

4. CONCLUSIONS

The numerical modelling of the superficial quenching process by the agency of the eddy currents is a complex problem, where two curvilinear field problems are being solved at the same time: that of electromagnetic field and of thermal diffusion. The curviliniarity of the eddy currents is given by B-H curvilinear relation, whereas that of the thermal problem is given by the dependency of the thermal data (thermal conductivity, heat capacity, coefficient of thermal transmittance).

The coupling of the two problems results in the powerful dependency of the B-H relation with the temperature, in the problem of the electromagnetic field and source of the thermal field, due to the Joule losses, in the thermal diffusion. The curvilinearity of the B-H relation will be solved by accepting the pseudolinearity model, where , the magnetic permeability is iteratively corrected in accordance with the magnetic induction. The model's big advantage arises from adopting the sinusoidal mode and the complex images, the numerical form of the field equations leading to a system of algebrical equations with complex coefficients.

The coupling of the two field problems is solved by the time discretization procedure, where, for each time spacing, the iterative correction of the electromagnetic and thermal data is made.

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