Mathematical modeling of heat treatment for a steering rack including mechanical effects
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J. M. Díaz
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C. García
Abstract
- Heat treatment is the controlled heating and cooling of metals used to alter their physical and mechanical properties. This is a very enabling process that can facilitate machining, formability and restore ductility, after a cold working operation, improving the product’s performances by increasing its strength or other desirable characteristics. This paper summarizes a mathematical model for the induction-conduction hardening of a specific steel workpiece: the steering rack of an automobile. The whole formulation takes into account both electromagnetic effects that lead to heating the workpiece and the corresponding thermomechanical effects that cause the hardening, Joule’s heating being the main responsible of the coupling between them. Some numerical simulations are presented; these numerical results have been computed using the freefem++ software.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Preface
- A non-standard FETI-DP mortar method for Stokes problem
- Implementation of a low order mimetic elements in freefem++
- Moving meshes with freefem++
- Mathematical modeling of heat treatment for a steering rack including mechanical effects
- A scenario for symmetry breaking in Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities
- New development in freefem++
- Fictitious domain method to model a movable rigid body in a sound wave
- High performance domain decomposition methods on massively parallel architectures with freefem++
- Solution of 2D Boussinesq systems with freefem++: the flat bottom case
- A finite element BFGS algorithm for the reconstruction of the flow field generated by vortex rings
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