Journal of Simulation and Analysis of Novel Technologies in Mechanical Engineering
Volume:7 Issue: 1, 2014

In this research، the effects of notch shape on the fatigue strength of 2024-T3 aluminum alloy notched specimens have been studied using experimental and multiaxial fatigue analysis. For this purpose، four set of specimens with different notch shape were prepared and then fatigue tests were carried out at various cyclic longitudinal load levels. Load controlled fatigue tests of mentioned specimens have been conducted on a 250kN servo-hydraulic Amsler H250 fatigue testing machine with the frequency of 10Hz. A nonlinear finite element ANSYS code was used to obtain stress and strain distribution in the specimens due to the longitudinal applied loads for all kinds of specimens. Estimation fatigue lives of the specimens were carried out with several different multiaxial fatigue criteria by means of local stress and strain distribution obtained from finite element analysis، i. e. KBM، FS، Crossland، VF and WY، by means of local stress and strain values obtained from finite element simulations. Results obtained from the multiaxial analysis revealed that among the applied criteria، the Crossland’s criterion has the best accuracy for all types of the specimens.

Piston scuffing is one of the destructive faults in internal combustion (IC) engines. There are different causes to make this fault that lack of lubricant is the most important one among them. The purpose of this paper is the quantitative study of the piston scuffing effects on the engine performance parameters which is a new research direction in the IC engine filed. For this reason, several engine parameters such as rotational speed, engine torque, engine power, blow-by flow rate and crankcase pressure were measured during a designed piston scuffing test. Results showed that the fault caused the rotational speed, the torque and the engine power to reduce more than 100 rpm, 25 N.m and 16 KW, respectively. In addition with the effects of the piston scuffing on the above parameters, a great and instant increase occurred in the blow-by flow rate, crankcase pressure.

Mechanical behavior of two-layer metal laminate structures under low-speed impact loading was investigated experimentally and numerically. The experimental results were just used for validation of numerical results. Then numerical modeling was used to study the behavior of metal laminates in details. The mechanical behavior of the metal laminate structures under impact loading was found to be dependent on the material substance of the layers. The metal layers were made of four common materials used in the industry. Results showed that the maximum amount of contact force and minimum amount of contact duration for the metal laminate structures with similar metal layers were obtained when the layers were made of steel. Whereas, the maximum amount of displacement and dissipated energy were achieved for the structure with lead layers. For the structures in which the first metal layer was Al-6061T6, the maximum contact force obtained when the second metal layer was made of steel; and the maximum displacement occurred when the second metal layer was made of lead. It was found that the maximum mean amount of contact force belonged to the structures with first metal layer of steel and the maximum mean amount of displacement belonged to the structures with the first metal layer of lead. The finite element analysis results were in good agreement with the experimental results and also with the other researcher’s results.

In this paper, the method of modern control approach for the design of controller and observer is used. Other functions such as neural controllers - or fuzzy sliding mode control can be found in this work and the results are compared. First, a dynamic model of the servo valve is intended for the governing equations in state-space form expression are obtained. Due to the system integrator is expressed by the non-zero, The servo system of a full-order state observer pole positioning method to measure the dominant pole, Bessel and ITAE is designed and evaluated. Response to a step input to the system is designed and the observer's response to initial conditions. The curves show the comparison between systems is designed to do.

There are several parameters that have significant influence in metal forming process. One of the most important of them is friction coefficient. Friction can change the pattern of metal flow and the force needed for deformation. It is necessary to determine the friction coefficient to study the effect of friction on metal forming process. This study is concerned with numerical and experimental studies on Ti-6Al-4V alloy by using T-shape friction test at elevated temperatures. B means of the FE simulations and experimental tests have been studied effects of parameters temperature, ram velocities, and die edge radius and friction conditions in T-shape friction test. Based on numerical results and experiment, by increasing the die speed, increasing the radius of edges, or reducing the temperature of experiment, sensitivity of friction in T-shape experiment is increased. At the end, flux curve of compression experiments, friction coefficient of T-shape experiment, and simulation in Deformer software were at a good agreement

Aluminum/alumina composites are used in automotive and aerospace industries due to their low density and good mechanical strength. In this research, the effect of mechanical stirring of slurry in liquid-solid phase temperature and injection of alumina powder with inert gas (Ar) on microstructure and mechanical properties of Al-A356 alloy is investigated. In order to improve of the wettability and homogenous distribution of alumina powder in the Al–matrix, heat treatment of alumina particles in 1100 ̊C for 20 min before injection in slurry is done. In this study, compo-casting method was used to fabricate aluminum matrix composite reinforced with micro alumina particles. To investigate the mechanical properties of hardness tests, impact and compression test are employed. Mechanical results showed that the stirring of slurry and addition of alumina improved the hardness, compression strength and impact energy. Using alumina particles and compo-casting process the best mechanical properties are obtained. Finally, the hardness, compression strength and impact energy of the samples that were produced by compo-casting method are compared to the convectional casting and showed an increase of 37, 231 and 51 percent, respectively.