Application of two-component technological media for surface processing with a high degree of curvature

Voronezh State Technical University, 14, Moscow avenue, Voronezh, 394026, Russia

^* Corresponding author: vsmolen@inbox.ru

Abstract

The final dimensional combined treatment with the application of an electric field by a tool in the form of unbound metal pellets of complex profile components used in aviation, rocket and space technology and in the oil and gas industry is considered. Such parts include impellers and the flowing component of the turbo-pump units, augers, impellers, where there are sections of variable curvature with limited access of the tool to the processing area. It is shown that the combination in a combined process of two-component technological media from current-carrying granules and an electrically conductive liquid medium supplied at high speed to the treatment zone allows to provide the required technological and operational processing parameters; the action of an electric field from a source with an increased voltage makes it possible to remotely perform a final dimensional processing of the pieces of metal parts with the creation of the required coldhardening against the impacts of solid granules; a combination of mechanical, chemical and magnetic impacts ensures obtaining a given profile accuracy, surface roughness. As a result, it is possible to increase the action and durability of important units of aerospace engineering and oil and gas equipment, and also to expand the area of technological use of the combined treatment method with unbound granules to component parts that are not accessible for processing by an integral tool. In the method under consideration, a universal granule tool is used which does not have a constant geometric shape and is capable of being delivered to the treatment zone through openings into parts whose dimensions are commensurable with the cross-section of the granules.