Basic stages of the machines making process

Cast iron is produced by a pyrometallurgical method from iron ores in the blast fur­naces.

The raw materials for the production of a cast iron are iron ores, fuel (coke) and fluxes.

For 1 t of the cast iron it is needed 1,7...2 t of ore, 500…700 kg of coke, 300...700 kg of flux, 2...3 t of the air blowing.

1. Oxygen-converter method – consists in a blowing out of molten pig iron by oxygen. A method has a high productivity, small duration of process, low expense of metal, absence of fuel, low expense of elecroenergy as compared to another ways, lowered capital charges on building and service, low prime price etc. In the economic developed countries this method is the most popular today.

2. Marten method (An open-hearth furnace). The receipt of steel is carried out due to the use of fuel (mainly, gaseous). A method is universal but it has the substantial failings, fore­most, a low productivity, a large duration of process, a large amount of fuel. Therefore it is out of use in many countries.

3. Production in electric furnace is a progressive method of receipt of steels based on the use of elecrtric energy. It is possible to get steels with minimum content of harmful admixtures of a high quality and with the special properties.

About 70 non-ferrous metals and more than 10 thousand of alloys on their basis are used in a modern technique .

Among all the non-ferrous metals alloys of aluminium, copper, titanium and magnesium have the most wide application in industry as a construction materials.

The production of aluminium, copper,titanium- magnesium products, nickel, lead, zinc is traditional in the structure of the non-ferrous metallurgy of Ukraine.

4. A level of development of the machine building industry of any country determines the state of all other industries and the whole economic position of the state.

In Ukraine the specific gravity of products of M.B.complex is 20 % in the general volume of the industry production.

The products of M.B. are machines, their complications, instruments.

The machine is a mechanical device for the transformation of energy, materials or informa­tion.

Any machine consists of parts (primary indivisible element), units and mechanisms.

Fig.1 – Machines classification

5. The basic technical-economical indexes of machines are: ¨productivity, ¨ longev­ity, ¨ efficiency, ¨ economy, ¨ degree of automation, ¨ reliability, ¨ technologicalness of con­struction, ¨ repairness, ¨ prime price.

6. There are the followings stages of making of any machine: · production of the work­pieces (half-finished goods); · production of the parts; · assembling of the parts into the units, mechanisms and the machine.

2. Special casting processesallow to get more high-quality goods, by greater exactness of sizes and volume of tooling. But the castings prime price is higher. Among these methods are: wax process – casting of smelted patterns (precision casting); permanent mould casting (gravity diecasting, chill casting) – a casting in the metal mould of multiple-use, filled by the metal under the action of gravity forces;diecasting (pressure casting) – molten metal injects into the metal mould at high pressures; centrifugal casting (the mould is rotated) etc.

Some methods of casting allow to get the prepared goods (parts) without the further tooling, for example, wax process, diecasting (pressure casting).

¨ Metal working processes (MWP) are the technological processes of production of the workpieces (half-finished goods) and finished products (parts) by deformation of materials in hot or cold condition.

These methods are generally economacal and in many cases improve the mechanical properties too. The production rate is very high in general .

About 90% of all of smelted steel and over 50% of nonferrous metals and alloys are proc­essed by these methods.

1. Methods of receipt of piece goods. Forging process where the heated workpiece is deformed by periodic shots or static influence of universal instrument allows to receipt the heavy workpieces – forgings of weigh to 200…300 t . Method is mainly used in a single production. Stamping is a process of making goods by a special instrument – die. The got goods have a greater stability of sizes and shape, greater exactness, more high quality of surface as compared with the goods of forging. A stamping process also is more productive and can be used in mass production.

2. Methods of receipt of long-length workpieces.Rolling is a process where the metal is compressed between two rotating rolls. This is one of the most widely used of all the metal working processes (for production of rods, wires, pipes, rails) because of its high productivity and low cost.

¨ Welding is the technological process of joining of two or more elements to make a single part.

Along with metal working processes and casting production welding is a major technological process of M.B., basic advantages of which are the followings: economy of metal; realizing in the different positions and environments; possibility of receipt of connections of defferent metals and alloys, non-metal materials; wide range of sizes and mass of the got parts; making of the new typies of constructions/

There are more than 70th different processes incorporated by the general name of «welding».

The most popular in the world welding practice are the thermal methods. The most wide­spread sources of heat for welding are: electric arc, gases flame, plasma, electron beam, laser radiation.

A basic method of welding works in the economy of the industrially developed countries (more than 50 % ) is an arc welding.