Abstract
AbstractAdditive manufacturing (AM) opens up manifold possibilities to influence the heat transfer between fluid and die in high-pressure die casting (HPDC), eventually allowing to minimize the total cycle time of the process. AM already has been exploited to establish near-contour temperature control systems in industrial applications. However, AM not only allows to influence the position of tempering channels in dies but it also allows to influence the fluid dynamics itself, e.g., by imprinted static mixers. Up to now, such flow-influencing mixing elements have not been considered in metal AM. In the present work, the impact of such metallic static mixers and most relevant processing conditions is investigated experimentally as well by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. In a first step, conventional static mixer elements are integrated into straight tempering channels to stimulate turbulences of the flowing tempering medium, finally resulting in an increase of the heat transfer up to 33%. In a second step, laser-based powder bed fusion of metals (PBF-LB/M) is applied to realize static mixers. Results obtained reveal that tempering channels without negative influences on the general flow behavior compared to conventional static mixers in straight tempering channels can be realized. In conclusion, the presented results show a positive impact on heat transfer and, thus, allow to further increase the economic efficiency of the HPDC process.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Computer Science Applications,Mechanical Engineering,Software,Control and Systems Engineering
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