Method for optimizing microstructure of rail welded joint

    公开(公告)号:US11866801B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-09

    申请号:US17477073

    申请日:2021-09-16

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of rails welding, and particularly to a method for optimizing microstructure of a rail welded joint, the method comprises the following steps: step 1): subjecting a rail web area of a to-be-cooled welded joint which is obtained by flash butt welding to an accelerated cooling by means of an accelerated cooling device and by using compressed air as a cooling medium, measuring and monitoring temperature of a central position of the rail web of the welded joint while cooling; step 2): stopping the accelerated cooling when the temperature of the central position of the rail web drops to a preset temperature, then placing the welded joint in air and naturally cooling to room temperature, wherein the rail is a pearlite rail having a carbon content of 0.6-0.9 wt %.

    MULTI-THICKNESS WELDED VEHICLE STRUCTURE
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230183831A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-15

    申请号:US17801019

    申请日:2021-02-24

    Inventor: Mark Sullivan

    Abstract: A process for preparing a multi-thickness welded steel vehicle rail, the process comprises the steps of: (a) forming a first tube having a first outer diameter, an inner diameter and a first wall thickness; (b) forming a second tube having the first outer diameter, a second inner diameter and a second wall thickness different than the first wall thickness; (c) swaging a first end of the first tube to a second outer diameter less than the second inner diameter of the second tube; (d) inserting the swaged first end of the first tube into an end of the second tube to form a joint; (e) welding the first tube and the second tube together to form a weld at the joint to form a tube blank with a heat affected zone of lower metal strength in the area of the weld; (f) preheating the tube blank to create a common crystalline microstructure along a length of the tube blank; (g) introducing the tube blank into a blow molding tool having inner molding walls; (h) molding the tube blank at an elevated temperature by expanding the tube blank against the inner molding walls of the molding tool by injecting a pressurized medium into an interior cavity of the tube blank; and (i) quenching the tube blank by replacing the pressurized medium with a cooling medium through the molding tool and the tube blank to achieve a rapid cooling effect on the tube blank and to create a completed vehicle rail with essentially uniform material strength across the weld. A completed vehicle rail has an overlapped welded structure and uniform microcrystalline structure along the length of the rail.

    Weld bead shaping apparatus and weld bead shaping method
    7.
    发明授权
    Weld bead shaping apparatus and weld bead shaping method 有权
    焊珠成型设备和焊珠成型方法

    公开(公告)号:US09533377B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-01-03

    申请号:US14364571

    申请日:2012-12-11

    Abstract: A weld bead shaping apparatus including: a gouging torch for gouging an object to be shaped; a shape sensor for measuring a shape of the object; a slider apparatus and an articulated robot for driving the gouging torch and shape sensor; an image processing apparatus; and a robot controlling apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes: a shape data extracting unit extracting shape data of the object, from a measurement result obtained by the shape sensor; and a weld reinforcement shape extracting/removal depth calculating unit calculating a weld reinforcement shape of the weld bead from a difference between the shape data and a preset designated shape of the object, and calculating a removal depth by which gouging is performed, based on the weld reinforcement shape. The robot controlling apparatus controls the slider apparatus, the articulated robot, and the gouging torch based on the weld reinforcement shape and the removal depth.

    Abstract translation: 一种焊道成形设备,包括:用于刨削要成形的物体的气刨手电筒; 用于测量物体的形状的形状传感器; 用于驱动气刨和形状传感器的滑块装置和铰接机器人; 图像处理装置; 和机器人控制装置。 图像处理装置包括:形状数据提取单元,根据由形状传感器获得的测量结果提取对象的形状数据; 以及焊接加固形状的取出深度计算单元,根据形状数据和对象的预先设定的指定形状之间的差来计算焊道的焊接加强形状,并根据 焊接加固形状。 机器人控制装置基于焊接加强形状和去除深度来控制滑块装置,铰接式机器人和气刨手电筒。

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