Browsing by Author "Plitchenko, Serhii"

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    Concept of Determining the Friction Stir Welding Mode
    (Національний гірничий університет, Дніпро, 2018) Vakulenko, Ihor O.; Plitchenko, Serhii; Murashova, Nataliia H.; Bohomaz, Volodymyr M.
    ENG: Purpose. To determine the optimal mode of friction stir welding of aluminum alloy. Methodology. 2.5 mm thick plates made of aluminum alloy AMg5 with chemical content of alloying elements within grade composition were used as a material for the research. Friction stir welding was carried out using specially designed equipment with a preselected form and dimensions of working tool. At different ratios of the working tool rotation frequency the forces of pressing and speed of its movement along the connecting edges determined the metal heating degree and the quality of welded joint formation. Temperature of the connecting edges heating was determined by thermocouples immersed in metal at different distances from the welded joint. Rotational speed of the working tool was from 800 to 1600 min-1 with the effort of pressing to the plate surface from 580 to 1370 N and the speed of movement along the joint of 50 mm/min. Findings. On the basis of different ratios of the working tool rotation speed and pressing to the connecting edges, there were determined conditions for achieving the effect of constant softening during friction stir welding. In order to achieve a high level of welding joint quality during friction stir welding it is necessary to carry out the process at high revolutions of the working tool and low levels of pressing to the connecting edges. Originality. At the constant speed of the working tool rotation proportional increase in alloy temperature from increasing the level of its pressing to the connecting edges is disturbed by achievement of conditions of the dynamic softening processes development. Practical value. The concept of choosing the technological parameters of welding process is determined, when it is preferred to increase in speed of the working tool rotation when the level of its pressing to the connecting edges decreases.
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    Determination Activation Energy of Friction Stir Welding
    (WRTYS, Kyiv, 2017) Vakulenko, Ihor O.; Plitchenko, Serhii
    EN: According to the technology of friction stir welding (FSW) heating of the edges is equal to 0.85-0.9 from the melting temperature of metal (T). Increase in temperature is accompanied by increased degree of the metal stirring, which leads to ambiguous influence on the metal density and concentration of cavities at different distances from the welding joint. At the same time, the temperature gradient across the section of joint leads to a different speed of recrystallization processes development and forming of structural heterogeneity in metal edges. Thus, the relevant question is to determine the optimal scheme of metal edges heating during the implementation of FSW technology. Material for the study was alloy AMg5. For different ratio of rotation speed and pressure on operating tool there were obtained the conditions of superplastic state of alloy at the temperatures of heating at the level of 0.45-0.5 from T, which corresponds to the beginning of dynamic recrystallization development during FSW. At the same time, it was evaluated the energy of activation (EA) of FSW process. Using the analysis of the obtained results it was determined the fact that when reaching the same temperature of alloy heating the EA value of FSW process decreases with increasing the rotation frequency of the operating tool and decreasing the degree of its pressing to the edges of welding joint. On the basis of the above mentioned the development of FSW technology should be directed toward the use of high speed rotations of the operating tool and low levels of its pressing to the alloy edges.
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    Influence Hot Plastic Deformation on the Structure and Properties of Carbon Steel of the Railway Wheel
    (Politechnika Śląska, 2023) Vakulenko, Ihor O.; Plitchenko, Serhii; Bolotova, Daria M.; Asgarov, Khangardash
    ENG: The study is devoted to the explanation of the influence of hot plastic deformation on the properties of railway wheels. The shape of individual elements of the wheel provides for a different degree of hot compression, which determines the mechanism for the development of the recrystallization at austenite. With a decrease in the degree of the hot deformation, a certain proportion of grains with a low energy of linear stretching are formed in austenite. As a result, of the low mobility of such boundaries, the likelihood of preservation of part of the substructural state of the austenite increases, which should affect the formation of a colony of perlite during the cooling of the carbon steel. Against background preservation and a dependence of strength properties on the dispersion of the pearlite colony, the appearance in austenite of grain boundaries with a low energy of linear tension leads to a qualitative change in the plastic properties of railway wheel steel. The increase in plasticity of carbon steel with an increase in dispersion of the pearlite colony is due to a decrease in the effect of solid solution hardening and an increase in the role of the ferrite-cementite interface in the development processes of strain hardening carbon steel. The results obtained can be useful for improving the technology of manufacturing all-rolled railway wheels.
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    Influence of Chemical Compounds on the Forming of Welding ARC
    (Дніпропетровський національний університет залізничного транспорту імені академіка В. Лазаряна, Дніпропетровськ, 2014) Vakulenko, Ihor O.; Plitchenko, Serhii; Makarevich, D. M.
    EN: Purpose. The purpose of work is a comparative analysis of chemical compounds influence on the process of forming arc welding and condition of its burning. Methodology. A wire with diameter 3 mm of low carbon steel with contain of carbon 0.15% was material for electrode. As chemical compounds, which determine the terms of arc welding forming the following compounds were used: kaolin; CaCO3 with admixtures of gypsum up to 60%; SiO2 and Fe − Si with the iron concentration up to 50%. Researches were conducted using the direct electric current and arc of reverse polarity. As a source of electric current a welding transformer of type PSO-500n was used. On the special stand initial gap between the electrode and metal plate was 1-1.5 mm. The inter electrode space was filled with the probed chemical compound and the electric arc was formed. At the moment of arc forming the values of electric current and arc voltage were determined. After the natural break of electric arc, the final gap value between electrodes was accepted as a maximal value of arc length. Findings. Experimentally the transfer of metal in interelectrode space corresponded to the tiny drop mechanism. According to external signs the relation between maximal arc length and the power of electric current has the form of exponential dependence. Specific power of electric arc at the moment of arc forming per unit of its length characterizes the environment in the interelectrode space. Originality. 1) Based on the analysis of influence of the studied chemical compounds on the formation processes of electric arc the inversely proportional relationship between the power of the electric current and the maximum arc length until the moment of its natural break is defined. 2) Ratio between the maximal arc length and the power of electric current, with the sufficiently high coefficient of correlation is submitted to the exponential dependence. Influence of the compounds under study on the process of electric arc forming is determined using the indexes of degree of the above mentioned correlation. 3) The value of specific power of electric current at the moment of electric arc forming per unit of arc length can be accepted as the parameter, which characterizes the state of interelectrode space environment. Practical value. In the conditions of identical adjusting force of electric current the sequence of location of the studied compounds in the order of increase of their influence on the process of arcing is determined. Minimum influence is observed from kaolin, and maximal one – from Fe − Si .
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    Influence of Structural Parameters of Low-Carbon Steel on Electric Arc Burning
    (Дніпропетровський національний університет залізничного транспорту імені академіка В. Лазаряна, Дніпро, 2017) Vakulenko, Ihor O.; Plitchenko, Serhii; Murashova, Nataliia H.
    EN: Purpose. The article is aimed to evaluate the influence of structural parameters of low-carbon steel on arcing process.Methodology. The values of the micro- and substructure characteristics of the electrode wire metal were changed by varying the parameters of heat treatment and cold deformation by drawing. The degree of plastic deformation was obtained by drawing blanks from different initial diameter to final dimension of 1 mm. The thermal treatment was carried out in electric chamber furnace of the SNOL-1,6.2,5.1/11-IZ type. The temperature was measured by chromel-alumel thermocouple and the electromotive force was determined using the DC potentiometer. In order to obtain the substructure of different dispersion degree the steel (after quenching from temperatures and tempering at 650°C for 1 hour) was subjected to cold drawing to reduction 17 – 80%. To form structure with different ferrite grain size the steel after drawing was annealed at 680°C for 1 hour. The microstructure was examined under a light and electron transmission microscope UEMV-100K at the accelerating voltage 100 kV. The grain and subgrain sizes were evaluated using the methodologies of quantitative metallography. A welding converter of the PSG-500 type was used to study the arc welding process of direct and reverse polarities. Findings. The experimentally detected value of the welding current, which depends on the degree of deformation during wire drawing, under conditions of stable arc burning of direct polarity is about an order of magnitude lower than the calculated value. Similar difference was found for the arc of reverse polarity: the experimental value of the welding current is 5...6 times less than the calculated value. Dependence analysis shows that, regardless of the polarity of the welding arc, a good enough agreement between the calculated and experimental values of the welding current is limited to deformations of 60%. For deformation degrees of more than 60%, the differences are explained by qualitative changes in the dislocation cell structure. Originality. In the conditions of stable arcing of different polarity for the electrode of low-carbon steel, an extreme dependence of welding current on the degree of cold plastic deformation was observed. Practical value. Influence of ferrite grain size of electrode wire on the value of welding current is much greater than that from substructure presence.
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    Investigation of the Influence of Elastic-Mass Characteristics of the Axle Test Stand Links on Its Own Oscillation Frequencies
    (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2021) Raksha, Serhii V.; Anofriev, Pavlo G.; Kuropiatnyk, Oleksii S.; Plitchenko, Serhii
    ENG: The reliability of work according to the criteria of vibration stability of the stand for testing the axles of wheelsets for endurance is largely determined by the natural vibration frequencies of the stand. The work considers a stand with a lever structure for loading the tested axles. In order to determine the influence of the parameters of the cross-section of the links on the natural frequencies of the vibration stand, the frequency characteristics were obtained by the method of mathematical modeling for two variants of the design schemes of the stand. Studies have shown that increasing the cross-sectional area of the levers without measuring other linear dimensions leads to a simultaneous increase in their mass and cruelty. The rigidity of the levers is defined as for beams on two supports with a load of a transverse concentrated force. As a result, the calculated values of the natural frequencies of the stand vibrations change insignificantly. A deeper analysis of the Eigen frequency characteristics of the stand with the tools of the Matlab system made it possible to obtain linear regression equations with the coefficients of determination close to one. The obtained research results gave reason to expect a decrease in stresses in the metal structures of the stand with an increase in the cross-sectional area of the levers, however, the values of the natural frequencies of the stand vibrations vary within a few percent. The way to control the natural frequencies of the stand vibrations only by changing the profile parameters is ineffective.
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    The Morphology Analysis of the Structure Aluminum Alloy at Friction Stir Welding
    (Посвит, Дрогобич, 2020) Plitchenko, Serhii; Vakulenko, Ihor O.
    EN: The main components of friction stir welding process of an aluminum-based alloy (AMg6) are considered. As a result of passage working tool along of connecting edges, formation a temperature gradient on their thickness determines development processes of structural changes. Based on this, in different layers of the weld, in accordance with the heating temperature, a different degree of plasticization alloy is achieved. Separate structural zones of the welded joint and their influence on the value of hardness are considered. The observed asymmetry of the weld is determined by the direction of rotation working surfaces of the tool. Based on the analysis of results of studies for the AMg6 alloy, an explanation is proposed for the formation gradient structures in the weld zone during friction stir welding.
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    Procedure for Determining Process Characteristics of Friction Stir Welding
    (Дніпропетровський національний університет залізничного транспорту ім. акад. В. Лазаряна, Дніпро, 2018) Plitchenko, Serhii
    EN: Purpose. The study is aimed at improving the procedure for determining the optimum radius of the shoulder of a special tool for friction stir welding (FSW) of aluminum alloys and its change depending on the variations of base metal thickness. Methodology. The friction stir welding process was carried out on specially designed equipment. The material for the studies were 1.85 mm thick plates made of aluminum alloy AMg3 with a chemical content of alloying elements within the range of the brand composition. The temperature in the welding zone and the pressure from the tool on the edges of the welded joint were determined using a specially designed research stand. The pressing force of the tool to the base metal during welding was measured with a dynamometer type DC-0.1 with the indicator head. Findings. During the research, the degree of metal heating and the quality of the welded joint formation were determined at various ratios of the rotation frequency of the working tool and the normal pressure to the joining edges. The research allowed determining the influence of FSW process parameters on the temperature of metal heating in the action zone of the working tool shoulder. Originality. The experimental studies allowed to determine the effect of the working tool rotation speed and the magnitude of its pressure on the welded metal during welding on the temperature in the weld zone. Increasing the tool rotation frequency allows to reduce pressure of the working tool during welding, which results in more efficient and high-quality welding process. It has been established that it is possible to obtain better welded joints at a temperature of about 0.7 Tm and to determine the optimal temperature range in the welding zone. Practical value. The study resulted in determination of the conditions for achieving the permanent softening effect during friction stir welding and the optimum temperatures in the welding zone for the tested alloy. The main technological parameters of the working tool are calculated and their influence on the generation of thermal energy in the welding zone is determined. The thermal analysis of the welding process resulted in development of the procedure for determining the technological parameters of the working tool and its rotation frequency depending on the weld metal thickness.
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    Structural Transformation at Friction Stir Welding of Aluminum Alloy
    (Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli Üniversitesi, 2020) Vakulenko, Ihor O.; Plitchenko, Serhii; Kurt, Bulent
    EN: On example of aluminum alloy AMg6 the questions concerning development processes of structure formation during friction stir welding are considered. From analysis changes in technological parameters of welding process, a qualitatively different nature of the temperature change is determined when approaching conditions of the super plastic deformation. In accordance with determined heating temperatures, effect grain size of solid solution on hardness in micro volumes of the alloy after forming weld joint was analyzed. From analysis dependence of micro hardness on grain size, it is determined that as the temperature increases, contribution to achieving conditions of super plastic flow from the grain boundaries with large angles of disorientation increases, and effect from solid solution state are decreases.