Investigation on a new type of low-stress cropping system with variable frequency vibration

This paper presents a new type of precision cropping system with variable frequency vibration by which the high-quality cutting surface can be obtained. On the basis of D’Alembert’s principle, the approximate relationship between the exciting force and the excited frequency in the cropping is acquired through computation. Five types of excited frequency control curves are designed and applied in the cropping experiments and the influences of these control curves on the cropping cross-section and the cropping time are investigated by experiment in details. According to the special feature of the cross-section obtained in the course of variable frequency vibration cropping, a new measurement method is proposed and applied to assess the quality of the cross-section. The theoretic and experimental results show that the exciting force acted on the bar in the vertical direction is larger than that in the horizontal direction and the linear decrease control curve, by which the high quality cross-section is obtained and the cropping time is reduced, is an ideal control mode compared with other control modes mentioned in the paper. The experiment also proves that the width of the bar instantaneous fracture region is decreased by reducing the value of every step frequency change, and the cropping time is also shortened by reducing the durative time of every step variable frequency under the action of the linear decrease frequency curve.