As an important problem in forging factories, dies are destroyed because of high wear rate, plastic deformation and thermal and mechanical fatigue at high temperatures. This paper is an investigation into        the use of nickel super alloy with different welding parameters. Three weld overlaid alloys of inconel625, as wear resistance hardfacing materials on H13 tool steel, with different weld...

MIT has been benchmarking Japanese and German NACOK air ingress tests using the FLUENT code for approximately three years [1]. The first benchmark study was for Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute’s (JAERI) isothermal and non-isothermal experiments [2] which investigate molecular diffusion of N2, and He under isothermal and natural circulation conditions, respectively. Another set of benchma...

We study the efficiency at maximum power, η*, of engines performing finite-time Carnot cycles between a hot and a cold reservoir at temperatures Th and Tc, respectively. For engines reaching Carnot efficiency ηC=1-Tc/Th in the reversible limit (long cycle time, zero dissipation), we find in the limit of low dissipation that η* is bounded from above by ηC/(2-ηC) and from below by ηC/2. These bou...

Hot-wire anemometric measurements of non-isothermal flows require the use of thermal compensation or correction circuitry. One possible solution is a two-state hot-wire anemometer that uses the cyclically changing heating level of a single sensor. The area in which flow velocity and fluid temperature can be measured is limited by the dimensions of the sensor's active element. The system is desi...

Recent Chandra and Newton observations indicate that there are two-temperature components (T ∼ 8 keV, 0.8 keV) of the diffuse x-rays emitted from deep inside the center of Milky Way. We show that this can be explained by the existence of sterile neutrinos, which decay to emit photons that can be bound-free absorbed by the isothermal hot gas particles in the center of Milky Way. This model can a...

Cooperating with heavy forging press, the heavy-duty forging manipulator is used for handling the workpiece during the free-forging process. Therefore, the size accuracy of the forgings is related to the dynamics performance of the forging manipulator. This paper aims to study the dynamic performance of DDS heavy-duty forging manipulator. The kinematics model is firstly built to predict the tra...

There are a wide range of physical defects which occur during metal forming processes. These defects, which may occur on the surface or be internal, are undesirable not only because of the surface appearance, but because they may adversely affect the strength, formability and other manufacturing characteristics of the material. Some physical defects in metal forming processes such as rolling an...