锻造、铸造、焊接外文翻译

毕业设计(论文)外文翻译学生姓名：系别：机械工程系专业：机械设计制造及其自动化班级：学号:译文出处：Science and Technology Engl-ish for Mechanical EngineeringCasting、Forging and Welding1. CastingMetal casting is one of the oldest of all industries, both ancient and medieval history offering examples of the manufacture and use of casting. From simple axeheads poured from copper in open moulds some 5000 years age, casting in the pre-Christian world developed to a point at which elaborate bronze statuary could be produced in two-piece and cored moulds. By the end of the medieval period, decorated bronze and pewter casting had begun to be used in European church and domestic life.The widespread adoption of cast iron as engineering material awaited the success of Abraham Darby in 1790 in smelting in the coke blast furnace; this paved the way for the massive use of cast iron in construction during the years following the industrial revolution.Many foundries sprang up after the industrial revolution, the vast majority being for the manufacture of the cast iron then being used as a structural material. The quantity production of iron castings in the nineteenth century was not matched by a universal advance in quality and the engineering use of the products encountered more serious risks in a non-ductile material.Despite the skill of the molder in producing complex forms, there was little change in the metallurgical and engineering situation until the modern era brought a better understanding of the factors determining quality. With modern techniques of process control the rudimentary judgment of the operator could give way to objective measurements of metal temperature, molding material properties and other production variables. These improvements have been applied not only to cast iron but to a wide range of cast alloys.There are four basic casting methods: sand-casting, die-casting, investment-casting, and centrifugal casting.Sand-casting is the most widely used method employed in foundry. In this process, sand moulds are contained in metal molding boxes that have four sides but no top or bottom. During the molding operation the boxes are located togetherby pins so that they can be separated to remove the pattern, and replaced in the correct position before the metal is poured in. The boxes are clamped together, or the cope (top section) weighted down when pouring to prevent the cope from “floating away”from the drag (lower section) when the mould is full of molten metal. The sequence when molding the simple two-part mould to cast a bracket is illustrated as follows.At the first stage the pattern is seated on the moulding board. The pattern is covered with facing sand, which is a specially prepared sand of good quality, which can take a clean and smooth impression, and can resist the heat from the molten metal that will be in contact with it. The facing sand is backed up with molding sand, which is old facing sand from previous moulds. The molding sand is carefully rammed up so that it is fairly tight around the pattern to produce a good solid mould, yet permeable enough to allow the gases produced during casting to escape. The sand is finally leveled off.At the second stage the mould with the pattern still in position is inverted; the exposed sand lightly covered with parting sand, and the exposed pattern with facing sand.(The parting sand has no cohesion, and is introduced to permit a clean separation when the mould is opened up to remove the pattern .) The second molding box is located in position on the first box and filled with molding sand. Two or more plugs are introduced when the second box is being filled (these are removed later, leaving channels in the sand). One of these plugs is positioned to one side of the pattern. The sand is rammed up and leveled off.Now, at stage 3, to allow the pattern to be removed. This is done by screwing a bar with a threaded end into a suitable insert in the pattern, damping the sand around the pattern, and gently rapping the bar in all directions so that the pattern can be carefully withdrawn. To facilitate the removal of the pattern without scuffing the sides of the impression, all surfaces that lie in the direction of pattern removal are inclined slightly by a small amount (the draw angle).A groove called a gate is cut in the sand face to allow the channel producedby the plug that is outside the pattern to connect with the impression .The metal is poured through this channel (called the runner), and the gate prevents it from dropping straight into the impression and damaging it .The cross-section of the gate is slightly smaller than that of channel so that a full runner will always supply metal to the gate at a slight pressure.Finally, the mould is reassembled, carefully locating and securing the two sections. The top section is known as the cope, and the lower section is known as the drag. The sand in the cope is vented. These vents allow the sand to be rammed up more tightly at the earlier stages without the risk of gases being trapped in the molten metal and forming blowholes in the solid metal. A sand-feeding gate (also called a pouring or bowl) is added to make it easier to pour the metal into the runner. The molten metal is poured through the runner and the air will escape through the riser.The impression will be filled with molten metal when it is completely filled. Gases can escape through the runner and the riser, which also act as headers to supply the impression with more metal to compensate for the contraction of the metal when cooling in the molten state.2. ForgingForging is the plastic working of metal by means of localized compressive forces exerted by manual or power hammers, presses, or special forging machines. It may be done either hot or cold. however, when it is done cold, special names usually are given to the processes. Consequently, the terms“forging” usually implies hot forging done above the recrystallization temperature.Modern forging is a development form the ancient art practiced by the armor makers and the immortalized village blacksmith. High-powered hammers and mechanical presses have replaced the strong arm, the hammer, and the anvil and modern metallurgical knowledge supplements the art skill of the craftsman in controlling the heating and handling of the metal.Forge ability is the term used in the industry to denote a material relative resistance to deformation and its plasticity. While considerable disagreementexists as to precisely what characteristics the word “forge ability” should include, the term as used here is defined as the tolerance of a metal or alloy for deformation without failure, regardless of forging pressure requirements.Raw material used for forging is generally bar or billet stock hot rolled from ingots melted in open-hearth, electric arc, or vacuum arc furnace .other forms and shapes such as rolled slabs, plats, and stock produced by continuous casting techniques are occasionally used .for certain grades ,vacuum arc melting imparts better forge ability than does conventional arc melting . However, the major purpose of vacuum melting is the improvement of mechanical properties and cleanliness, not forging behavior.Equipment behavior influences the forging progress since it determines the feasibility of forging a part and affects the rate of deformation and the temperature conditions.The hammer is the most economical type of equipment for generating load and energy necessary to carry out a forging process, provided that the material being forged can support high deformation velocities. It is most commonly used hot forging equipment for repeated blows on the same workpiece and cannot be overloaded.There are various types of hammers: air-lift gravity drop hammers, power drop hammers, power drop hammers, Counterblow hammers ect. In a simple gravity drop hammer the upper ram is positively connected to a board, a belt, a chain or a piston. When forging the ram is lifted to a certain height and then dropped on the stock placed on the anvil. During the down stroke, the rain is accelerated by gravity and builds up the blow energy. The upstroke takes place immediately after the blow, the force necessary to ensure quick lift-up of the ram can be 3 to 5 times the ram weight. The operation principle of a power-drop hammer is similar to that of an air drop hammer. During the down stroke, in addition to gravity, the ram is accelerated by steam, cold air or hot air pressure. In an electro hydraulic gravity-drop hammer, the ram is lifted with oil pressure against an air cushion. The compressed air slows down the upstroke of the ram and contributes to its acceleration during the down stroke .thus; the electrohydraulic hammer also has a minor power hammer action.Press forging employs a slow squeezing action in deforming the plastic metal, as contrasted with the rapid-impact blows of a hammer. Hydraulic forging press is operated by large pistons driven by high-pressure hydraulic or hydrometric system. The squeezing action is carried completely to the center of the part being pressed, thoroughly working the entire section. These presses are the vertical type and may be either mechanically or hydraulically operated. The mechanical presses, which are faster operating and most commonly used, range in capacity from 5000 to 10000 tons.In the forging press a grater proportion of the total work put into the machine is transmitted to the metal than in a drop hammer. The machine and foundation absorb much of the impact of the drop hammer .press reduction of the metal is faster, and the cost of operation is consequently lower. most press forging s are symmetrical in shape ,having surfaces, which are quite smooth, and provide a closer tolerance than is obtained by a drop hammer .however ,drop forging can forge many parts of irregular and complicated shapes more economically. Forging presses are often used for sizing operations on parts made by other forging processes.For small forgings closed impression dies are used, and only one stroke of the ram is normally require to perform the forging operation .the maximum pressure is built up at the end of the stroke ,which forces the metal into shape .dies may be mounted as separate units, or all the cavities may be put into a single block. for small forgings individuals die units are more convenient .large ingots are now almost always forged with hydraulic presses instead of with steam hammers, since the work done by a press goes deeper. Further, the press can take a cooler ingot and can work to closer dimensions.The forging should be done at about the same temperature as rolling; the process improves the physical properties of the steel just as rolling does. In the final forging it is important not to have the steel too hot, for overheated steel will have poor mechanical properties when cooled. in heating for forging the temperature is usually judged by the eye, but where a large number of thesame patterns will be made, the pieces to be forged are heated in furnaces in which the temperature is indicated by pyrometers, and often is automatically controlled.3. weldingWelding techniques have become so versatile that it is difficult nowadays to define “welding”. Formerly welding was “the joining of metals by fusion”, that is, by melting, but this definition will no longer do. Welding was next defined as the “joining of metals by heat”, but this is not a proper definition either. Not only metals can be welded, so can many of the plastics. Furthermore several welding methods do not require heat. Every machinist is familiar with heatless welding method under some circumstances. Besides these, we can weld with sound and even with the famous laser. Faced with a diversity of welding methods that increase year by year, we must here adopt the following definition of welding:" welding is the joining of metals and plastics by methods that do not employ fastening devices”.There is also no uniform method of naming welding processes. Some processes are named according to the heat source or shielding method, other certain specialized processes are named after the type of joint produced. Examples are spot and butt welding. But an overall classification can not take account of this because the same type of joint may be produced by a variety of processes. Spot welding may be done by electric resistance, arc, or electron-beam processes and butt welding by resistance, flash or any of a number of other methods. Many welding processes are named depending on the heat applied, equipment used, and type of metal to be joined and the strength of the joint.Soldering is the process of joining two metals by a third metal to be applied in the molten state. Solder consists of tin and lead, while bismuth and cadmium are often included to lower the melting point. One of the important operations in soldering is that of cleaning the surface to be joined, this may be done by some acid cleaner. Soldering gives a satisfactory joint for light articles ofsteel, copper or brass, but the strength of soldering joint is rather less than a joint which is brazed, riveted or welded. These methods of metal are normally adopted for strong permanent joints.Pressure welding is known as the simplest method of welding two pieces of metal together. The ends of metal are heated to a while heat—for iron, the welding temperature should be about 1300℃—in a flame. At this temperature the metal becomes plastics. The ends are then presses or hammered together, and the joint is smoothed off. Care must be taken to ensure that the surfaces are thoroughly clean first, for dirt will weaken the weld. Moreover, the heating of iron or steel to a high temperature causes oxidation, and a film of oxide is formed on the heated surfaces. For this reasons, a flux is applied to the heated metal. At welding heat, the flux melts, and the oxide Particles are dissolved in it together with any other impurities which may be present. The metal surfaces are pressed together, and the flux is squeezed out from the center of the weld.Gas welding includes all the processes in which gases are used to obtain a hot flame. Those commonly used are acetylene, natural gas, and hydrogen in combination with oxygen. The maximum temperature developed by oxyhydrogen welding is 3600℉ (1980℃). Hydrogen is produced either by the electrolysis of water or by passing steam over coke. An oxyacetylene weld is produced by heating with a flame obtained from the combustion of oxygen and with or without the use of a filler metal. In most cases the joint is heated to a state of fusion, and as a rule, no pressure is used.Are welding is a process in which coalescence is obtained by heat produced from an electric arc. The electrode or filler metal is heated to a liquid state and deposited into the joint to make the weld. Contact is first made between the electrode and the work to create an electric circuit, and then, by separating the conductors, an arc is formed. The electric energy is converted into intense heat in the arc, which attains a temperature around 10 000°F (5500℃). Either direct or alternating current can be used for arc welding, direct current being preferred for most purposes. A d-c welder is simply a motor-generator set ofconstant-energy type, having the necessary characteristics to produce a stable arc. Arc welding uses commonly metal electrodes or carbon electrodes.Laser Welding is used because of laser’s high heat intensity. It can be operated in any transparent medium without contact with the workpiece, since the laser delivers its energy in the form of light. In welding, the power is delivered in pulses rather than as a continuous beam, the beam is focused on the workpiece and the intense heat produces a fusion weld. Laser welding is slow and is used only for special jobs involving small weldments. Its greatest use is found in the electronics industry.Explosion welding is a process that uses energy from the detonation of an explosive to join two pieces of metal. The explosion accelerates the pieces to a speed at which a metallic bond will form between them when they collide. The weld is produced in a fraction of a second without the addition of filler metal. This is essentially a room temperature process in that gross heating of the workpieces does not occur. The faying surfaces, however, are heated to some extent by the energy of the collision, and welding is accomplished through plastic flow of the metal on those surfaces. Welding takes place progressively as the explosion and the forces it creates advance from one end of the joint to the other. Deformation of the weldment varies with the type of joint. There may be no noticeable deformation at all in some weldments, and there is no loss of metal.译文：铸造、锻造和焊接1.铸造金属铸造是最古老的产业之一，远古时期和中世纪就有人使用和制造铸件了。