A piston is an important component of the shock absorber which determines comfortable riding and handling. Conventional piston
is made of metal powder that is pressed in a mold, and then sintered at high temperatures below the melting point before machining
processes such as drilling, sizing and teflon banding. This study aims at cutting down cost and weight, and improving the
process by replacing the traditional sintering process used for manufacturing the shock absorber with the injection molding
process adopting engineering plastics as raw material. To analyze the injection molding process, we used the commercial program,
MOLDFLOW, and obtained an optimal combination of the process parameters. In addition, by comparing the engineering plastic
piston with the metal powder piston through the formability and the performance experiments, we confirmed the availability
of this alternative process suggested. 相似文献
Steel components absorb impact energy by plastic deformation whilst composite materials absorbing it by damage mechanisms such as fiber debonding, fiber fracture, and matrix cracking. Therefore, in order to properly substitute metal components with composite ones in industrial applications, the impact property of composite materials must be well known. In this study, the impact behavior of sheet molding compounds (SMC), which is widely used in automobile industry due to its relatively low cost and high productivity, was examined both experimentally and numerically. In order to investigate the impact behavior of SMC, an experimental study was carried out by setting up a drop weight impact test system. Using this system, the dissipated impact energies of SMC flat plates were measured to investigate the influence of the mass and shape of impactor, initial velocity, and specimen thickness on the impact behavior.
For numerical predictions, a modified damage model for SMC was developed and adopted in the user defined material subroutine of the commercial simulation program LS-DYNA3D. For the sake of improving efficiency of impact simulations, the SMC material property was determined in consideration of the local differences of the fiber volume fractions. The dissipated impact energies under various conditions and the reliability of the developed impact simulation process were examined through comparisons of the predicted data with the experimental results.
From this comparison, it was found that, in the scope of current study, the specimen thickness is the most important parameter that should be considered in the design of SMC components for the aspect of impact behavior. 相似文献
We discuss the effect of fibre strength and diameter on the balance of mechanical properties of glass-reinforced polyamide 6,6. The results show that the elastic properties of injection-moulded short-glass-fibre-reinforced polyamide 6,6 are not strongly influenced by fibre diameter in the 10–17 micron range. The ultimate properties of these composites (strength and Izod impact behaviour) showed a clear dependence on fibre diameter and were increased by the presence of high-strength S-2 glass fibres. The relationship between the observed mechanical properties and the length, diameter and orientation of the fibres is explored. We have measured fibre length as a function of diameter in composites containing a single glass-reinforcement product and blends of two glass products. The reduction in glass-fibre length from glass-fibre production to final composite moulding has been followed step by step. The final composite mechanical properties, the fibre length, strength, diameter and orientation are all inter-related. 相似文献