A Deburring Process Performed by Underwater Shock Wave

2011 ◽  
Vol 673 ◽  
pp. 271-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazumasa Shiramoto ◽  
Junki Shimizu ◽  
Akiyoshi Kobayashi ◽  
Masahiro Fujita

A burr is most commonly created after machining operations, such as drilling. Drilling burrs, for example, are common when drilling almost any material. When burrs are broken during the operation of a machine including the parts with the created burrs, the broken piece is in fear of disturbing normal operation or damaging the parts of the machine, so that the sufficient deburring is requested because it can affect equipment performance, reliability, and durability. Several deburring method have been developed up to date. In the present report, we proposed a deburring method by means of applying underwater shock wave. The method is as follows: after all entrance of holes is closed with seal tape, the equipment is submerged, so that all passages for running fluid are filled with air. The explosive is set under water near the entrance of the main hole. As soon as the explosive is detonated, the underwater shock wave generated at the detonation point arrives at the entrance of the hole and breaks through the tape. The water flows into the hole with a high speed. The burr is broken by water hummer action of high speed. In the present investigation, the experiments of deburring are performed under some setting conditions of explosive. It is found by experimental results, that the burr is sufficiently removed with the newly proposed method. When the shock pressure is sufficiently high at the entrance of hole, the burr is broken surface is smooth as polished one. When the shock pressure is not sufficiently high, the broken surface of the burr is notched.

Author(s):  
Keijiro Nishi ◽  
Shigeru Tanaka ◽  
Shigeru Itoh

An explosive welding technique which uses underwater shock wave to weld thin aluminum plate has been studied and the technical advantages were reported. In this research, we propose a method to produce a composite material using an underwater shock wave generated by detonation of explosive. In the production process, a metal plate (flyer plate) accelerates to a high speed by the underwater shock wave, and collided with diamond particles and penetrated the metal plate. Diamonds were used as the particles and aluminum plates (A1050) as the flyer plates. Diamond has high hardness and excellent thermal conductivity, therefore diamond should provide improvement in the thermal conductivity of the composite material. From recovered sample, the multilayer joined surface including diamond particles was observed using an optical microscope. The production of the pipe of composite materials was attempted using this technique as the application. Details of the experimental methods and results are reported in this paper.


2006 ◽  
Vol 326-328 ◽  
pp. 1551-1554
Author(s):  
Hidetoshi Sakamoto ◽  
Shinjiro Kawabe ◽  
Kazuo Satoh ◽  
Masahiro Himeno ◽  
Shigeru Itoh

As the application technique for glass bottle’s recycling system, a new “Cullet” generation method by using underwater shock wave was proposed. This small fragmentation technique of glass bottles has a lot of excellent advantages such as the simplification of process by simultaneous cleaning and crushing operation, the high collect rate of “Cullet” and so on. In this study, the relation between of the explosive conditions and “Cullet” sizes were clarified and the high speed fracture process of glass bottle was observed by framing photograph of high speed image converter.


Author(s):  
Toshiaki Watanabe ◽  
Hirofumi Iyama ◽  
Ayumi Takemoto ◽  
Shigeru Itoh

Adhesion problem of marine organisms often becomes a problem, in the case of ship, marine floating construction and sluice gate of power plant. These make fluid resistance of a hull increase, cause a buoyancy fall, or cause reducing coolant etc. Although these are chiefly removed by manual operation now, immense expense and immense labors, such as personnel expenses and time and effort, are needed. We tried application of an underwater shock wave, in order to solve these problems. Interference of a shock wave and the mechanism of marine organisms exfoliation were explored using the explosive and PMMA plate, which imitated a marine organisms adhesion. The process of exfoliation of organisms from PMMA plate was observed by using of the high-speed camera.


2007 ◽  
Vol 566 ◽  
pp. 339-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Kook Kim ◽  
Kazuyuki Hokamoto ◽  
Shigeru Itoh

In order to achieve an optimal design of shock compaction device, various designs of parts are attempted. For the height of water container that creates an underwater shock wave and a reflected wave, a characteristic of underwater shock wave is evaluated by means of numerical analysis. It is found that the underwater shock wave and the reflected wave became one wave with higher shock pressure in the case of water container (height 21.5 mm). Also, the evaluation for a powder container is experimentally tried in consideration of reuse.


Author(s):  
Toshiaki Watanabe ◽  
Hironori Maehara ◽  
Masahiko Otsuka ◽  
Shigeru Itoh

The aim of study is to confirm a new technique that can crush the frozen soil and/or ice block using underwater shock wave generated by the underwater explosion of explosive. This technique can lead to the earlier sowing, which can have the larger harvest because the duration of sunshine increases. Especially, in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan, if the sowing is carried out in April, we can expect to have 150% of harvest in the ordinary season. This technique is effective against the cold regions. For example, Korea, China, Mongolia, Russia, Norway, and Sweden, etc. At first, we carried out experiments usung a detonating fuse and ice block. The process of ice breaking was observed by means of a high-speed camera. In order to check about that influence we tried to give an actual frozen soil a shock wave.


1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeru Itoh ◽  
S. Kubota ◽  
Shirou Nagano ◽  
I. Morita ◽  
A. Chiba ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Kazumasa Shiramoto ◽  
Masahiro Fujita ◽  
Hirofumi Iyama ◽  
Yasuhiro Ujimoto ◽  
Shigeru Itoh

In this report, we propose a new explosive welding method, and the welding is performed at employing underwater shock pressure produced by the underwater explosion of an explosive placed at one side almost vertical to the specimen to be welded. In order to prevent the reduction of the shock pressure with the distance away from explosive, a steel reflector is placed over the area of the specimen. The effects of the reflector are investigated based on the experimental results and the process is numerically analyzed results.


2014 ◽  
Vol 566 ◽  
pp. 403-408
Author(s):  
Hideki Hamashima ◽  
Seisaku Iwasa ◽  
Hironori Maehara ◽  
Shigeru Itoh ◽  
Kazuyuki Hokamoto

The basic behavior during underwater electrical discharge up to 10 kJ stored energy is investigated through both numerical analysis and optical-observation experiments. Since the authors have been investigating the use of underwater exploding phenomena for food processing and other applications, it is necessary to know the whole process which may affect the quality of the samples recovered. In the present investigation, the propagation of underwater shock wave was measured using a high-speed camera and compared with the numerically simulated results using LS-DYNA. Also, the motion of gas bubble, which is induced quite after the propagation of the shock wave, was measured and compared with the numerical simulation using the same code. The pressure of the bubble is not such high as the shock wave, but it is known that the impulse is not possible to be ignored due to its relatively long duration of the pressurization. Through a series of optical-observation experiments, it is confirmed that the numerical simulation is potentially possible to predict the whole phenomena for processing foods and other materials.


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