Coupled Problems in Electroheat Technology
In modern industry efficient electroheat technological
processes are applied. This paper deals with such technological operations
as induction heating and resistance welding of metals. In heated workpieces,
coils, welded parts, electrodes the coupled processes of the alteration
of the electromagnetic, thermal and elastic-plastic mechanical states take
place. These complicated phenomena determine the course and definitive
results of the technological operations. This paper describes numerical
formulations, algorithms and PC-software developed for above-mentioned
processes, as well as results obtained with this software. We developed
the finite element axisymmetrical formulations for electromagnetic, thermal
and static elastic-plastic mechanical problems. These formulations take
into account thermal dependences of electric, thermal and mechanical material
properties and non-linear magnetic properties of soft ferromagnetic steels.
The Fourier's equation is solved by using the boundary conditions of the
first, second and third kind. Besides, we take into consideration the thermal
radiation in accordance with Stefan-Boltzmann's law. Solving elastic-plastic
mechanical problem we use a special theory of plasticity with isotropic
hardening. In order to solve three coupled problems (electromagnetic, thermal
and mechanical) we developed and investigated numerical iterative algorithms
taking into account the special features of the technological processes
under consideration. A few technological problems of practical interest
concerning induction heating and resistance welding of metal have been
solved.
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