CN212443156U - High-efficiency high-throughput continuous casting and rolling system and process for titanium alloy bars - Google Patents
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The invention provides a high-efficiency high-throughput continuous casting and rolling system for titanium alloy bars, which comprises a feeding mechanism, a smelting chamber, a shunting mechanism, a multi-channel crystallization mechanism, a pull-down mechanism, a material receiving mechanism, a conveying belt and a rolling mechanism. The smelting chamber is provided with a water-cooled copper hearth and is used for heating and smelting raw materials through a plasma gun to form metal liquid; the metal liquid is led into the shunting chamber and shunted to the multi-channel crystallization mechanism; the multi-channel crystallization mechanism is provided with a plurality of crystallizers in one-to-one correspondence with the shunting ports; the material receiving mechanism is arranged below the multi-channel crystallization mechanism and is provided with material receiving pipes which correspond to the crystallizers one by one, and the material receiving pipes are opened after being turned over, so that the titanium alloy billet rods slide to the conveying belt; conveying the titanium alloy billet to a rolling mechanism by a conveying belt for continuous rolling forming; the crystallizer is a water-cooling copper crystallizer, the crystallizers are vertically arranged at equal intervals, and the outer surface of each crystallizer is provided with a thermal barrier material coating.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of titanium alloy preparation, in particular to a high-efficiency high-throughput continuous casting and rolling system for a titanium alloy bar.
Background
The titanium alloy has the advantages of high specific strength, good corrosion resistance, good machinability and the like, is often used as a structural member material in ship and ocean engineering, can greatly prolong the service life of the ship by using the titanium alloy on the ship, realizes weight reduction and load increase, and reduces the maintenance cost of the ship. In ocean engineering, the titanium alloy bar can be used as a support, so that the corrosion resistance in the ocean environment is improved, the corrosion of the seawater environment to building components such as piers, revetments and the like is reduced, and the service life is prolonged. However, the cost of the titanium raw material is unexpected due to the preparation of the titanium alloy bar at present, and the application of the titanium alloy is also limited due to the long processing period.
The existing processing and manufacturing process of the titanium alloy bar generally comprises the working procedures of smelting, cogging forging, forming forging, rolling and the like. Currently, conventional equipment and methods are inefficient in that they take about 50 hours to process an average bar of titanium alloy. In addition, in these processes, defects such as cracks are easily formed on the surface of the blank, and the surface defects must be removed before the next process flow, so that a large amount of material is consumed and the process cost is inevitably increased.
In order to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency, the novel continuous casting and rolling technology becomes a major key direction in the titanium alloy research field at present, and the continuous casting and rolling technology has a series of characteristics of short flow, high efficiency, low cost and the like, has huge advantages and practical potential compared with the traditional processing method, and is one of the methods for reducing the use cost of the titanium alloy.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a high-efficiency high-throughput continuous casting and rolling system and a process for a titanium alloy bar, which can realize the purposes of shortening the process flow and the period and realizing the high-efficiency high-uniformity low-cost continuous casting and rolling equipment for the rodlike titanium alloy aiming at the problems of low efficiency and high cost of the existing titanium alloy preparation and processing.
In order to achieve the above object, a first aspect of the present invention provides a high-efficiency high-throughput continuous casting and rolling system for titanium alloy bars, including a feeding mechanism, a smelting chamber, a dividing mechanism, a multi-channel crystallization mechanism, a pull-down mechanism, a receiving mechanism, a conveying belt, and a rolling mechanism, wherein:
the feeding mechanism is used for conveying raw materials into the smelting chamber;
the bottom of the smelting chamber is supported with a water-cooled copper hearth which is positioned below the outlet of the feeding mechanism and used for receiving and accumulating the conveyed raw materials, and a plasma gun is arranged above the water-cooled copper hearth and used for heating and smelting the raw materials to form metal liquid;
the shunting chamber is communicated with the smelting chamber, the shunting mechanism is arranged in the shunting chamber, and the molten metal formed in the water-cooled copper hearth is guided into the shunting chamber and shunted into the multi-channel crystallization mechanism through a plurality of shunting ports of the shunting mechanism;
the multi-channel crystallization mechanism is arranged right below the flow distribution mechanism and is provided with crystallizers corresponding to the flow distribution ports one by one;
the pull-down mechanism is arranged below the inner part of the crystallizer and can vertically move to pull down or support the titanium alloy billet through the driving of a motor;
the material receiving mechanism is arranged below the multi-channel crystallization mechanism and is provided with material receiving pipes which correspond to the crystallizers one by one, the material receiving pipes are kept in the corresponding material receiving pipes after the titanium alloy billet pulled down from the crystallizers reaches a preset length and is cut off, the material receiving pipes are opened after the titanium alloy billet is turned over, and the titanium alloy billet slides to the conveying belt;
the conveying belt is used for conveying the titanium alloy billet into the rolling mechanism for continuous rolling forming;
the multi-channel crystallization mechanism comprises three crystallizers, wherein the crystallizers are vertically arranged at equal intervals;
the three crystallizers are distributed in a straight line or in an equilateral triangle and are spaced from each other, and the outer surface of each crystallizer is provided with a thermal barrier material coating.
Preferably, the thermal barrier material coating is a 7YSZ thermal barrier coating.
Preferably, the thickness of the thermal barrier material coating layer on each crystallizer surface in the plurality of crystallizers is equal, and the thickness ranges from 5mm to 10 mm.
Preferably, the inner diameter of the crystallizer is 5-20 mm.
Preferably, receiving mechanism is convertible receiving mechanism, including supporting upset pole and the drive in the receiving chamber the motor that the upset pole overturned from top to bottom, a plurality of receiving pipe are open type receiving pipe to set up on the upset pole equally spaced, make through the drive of motor receiving pipe removes between receiving material position and blowing position in step, and opens after reaching the blowing position receiving pipe and slope certain angle for titanium alloy billet slides in the conveyer belt.
Preferably, the conveyer belt is a high-temperature alloy steel conveyer belt, and rollers are arranged at the lower part of the conveyer belt.
Preferably, at least one plasma gun and a temperature detection module for detecting the temperature of the molten metal in the shunting chamber are arranged above the shunting chamber, and the at least one plasma gun is arranged for supplementing heat to the molten metal in the shunting chamber.
Preferably, the multi-channel crystallization mechanism is further provided with water cooling channels surrounding the plurality of crystallizers.
Preferably, the rolling mechanism comprises a rolling chamber and a roller arranged in the rolling chamber and used for carrying out multi-pass rolling on the titanium alloy billet, wherein before entering the rolling chamber, the titanium alloy billet is also subjected to heat supplementing treatment by a heating furnace
Through the scheme of the invention, compared with the prior art, the invention has the remarkable advantages that:
1) the invention realizes the preparation of a short-flow high-flux titanium alloy bar, on one hand, the titanium alloy bar quickly enters a rolling flow after being crystallized to form a casting blank, so that the heat loss is reduced, and the long-time heat compensation in a secondary process is avoided, or only the short-time heat compensation is needed, on the other hand, the high-flux method is adopted to realize the low-cost and high-efficiency preparation aiming at the preparation of the titanium iron boron alloy bar (5-20mm diameter bar) used in the field of maritime work, so that the time consumption and the cost of the traditional single-bar preparation are avoided; the device of the invention is used for continuous casting and rolling, the single casting quantity can be multiplied, the efficiency is high, and the unit cost and the time are greatly reduced;
2) in the process of realizing high-flux crystallization, thermal barrier material coatings are distributed on the surfaces of the crystallizers, so that the thermal independence of each crystallizer is ensured, and the problem of performance reduction caused by internal thermal stress caused by heat conduction and radiation among the crystallizers is solved. Meanwhile, in the crystallization process of the slender bar, the traditional water cooling flow rate is high, so that the unevenness is easily caused, the invention is beneficial to reducing the water cooling crystallization speed of the thermal barrier material coating to a certain extent, the uniformity of the titanium alloy casting blank is ensured, and the process time is not sacrificed too much;
3) according to the invention, the shunting chamber is provided with the heat supplementing device so as to ensure the temperature of the metal liquid, ensure the uniformity during smelting and ensure the casting and rolling quality of the titanium alloy bar;
4) aiming at the conveying problem of the slender cast ingot, the invention innovatively uses the combination of the cocoa turnover mechanism and the open type material receiving pipe to realize seamless butt joint, and conveniently transfers the titanium rod of the casting blank onto the conveying belt, thereby reducing the manual participation in a high-temperature state and realizing automatic and semi-automatic continuous production.
It should be understood that all combinations of the foregoing concepts and additional concepts described in greater detail below can be considered as part of the inventive subject matter of this disclosure unless such concepts are mutually inconsistent. In addition, all combinations of claimed subject matter are considered a part of the presently disclosed subject matter.
The foregoing and other aspects, embodiments and features of the present teachings can be more fully understood from the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Additional aspects of the present invention, such as features and/or advantages of exemplary embodiments, will be apparent from the description which follows, or may be learned by practice of specific embodiments in accordance with the teachings of the present invention.
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fig. 1 is a block diagram of a high-efficiency, high-throughput continuous casting and rolling system for titanium alloy rods according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a multi-pass crystallization mechanism of a high efficiency high throughput continuous casting and rolling system for titanium alloy bars according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention
Fig. 3-4 are front and perspective views, respectively, of a roll-over receiving mechanism of a high-efficiency high-throughput continuous casting and rolling system for titanium alloy bars according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
Fig. 5-6 are front and perspective views, respectively, of a receiving pipe of a receiving mechanism of a high-efficiency high-throughput continuous casting and rolling system for titanium alloy bars according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention after being opened.
Fig. 7 is a gold phase diagram of a titanium billet of an exemplary embodiment produced by a high efficiency, high throughput continuous casting and rolling system for titanium alloy rods in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
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In order to better understand the technical content of the present invention, specific embodiments are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
In this disclosure, aspects of the present invention are described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which a number of illustrative embodiments are shown. Embodiments of the present disclosure are not necessarily intended to include all aspects of the invention. It should be appreciated that the various concepts and embodiments described above, as well as those described in greater detail below, may be implemented in any of numerous ways, as the disclosed concepts and embodiments are not limited to any one implementation. In addition, some aspects of the present disclosure may be used alone, or in any suitable combination with other aspects of the present disclosure.
Referring to fig. 1-6, the high-efficiency high-throughput continuous casting and rolling system for titanium alloy bars according to the embodiment of the invention includes a feeding mechanism 1, a smelting chamber 2, a shunting chamber 3, a receiving chamber 4, a conveyor belt 5, a rolling mechanism 6, a multi-channel crystallization mechanism 7, a pull-down mechanism 12, and a receiving mechanism 13.
The shunting chamber 3 is communicated with the smelting chamber 2, and a shunting mechanism with a plurality of shunting ports 11 is arranged in the shunting chamber 3.
With reference to fig. 1, a feed mechanism 1 is provided for feeding raw material of titanium sponge into a melting chamber 2. Alternatively, the feeding mechanism 1 has one feeding duct, for example a screw feeding duct.
A vacuum valve 8 is arranged between the feeding mechanism 1 and the smelting chamber 3.
With reference to fig. 1, the interior bottom of the melting chamber supports a water-cooled copper hearth (not shown) and is located below the outlet of the feed mechanism, which receives the conveyed raw material and deposits it.
During the charging phase, titanium sponge (or a mixture of titanium sponge and master alloy) enters the smelting chamber 2 from the feeding duct of the feeding mechanism. And opening the rough vacuum pump after the feeding stage is finished, opening the fine pumping valve when the vacuum degree reaches below 5Pa, and filling protective gas argon until the vacuum degree reaches 0.5 Pa. After the filling of the shielding gas is finished, the first plasma gun 18 in the smelting chamber is opened to smelt the raw materials into molten metal, and the molten metal overflows and flows into the shunting chamber 3 from the smelting chamber.
In the preferred embodiment, two first plasma guns 18 are provided in the melting chamber to achieve better melting. The first plasma gun is arranged above the smelting chamber, and the second plasma gun is arranged in the middle of the smelting chamber and the shunting chamber, so that heat supplement is realized.
Preferably, the power of the first plasmatron is greater than the power of the second first plasmatron, for example wherein the higher power is 60-70KW and the other lower is 50-60 KW.
The distribution chamber 3 is preferably designed with a circular cross-section structure to achieve uniform heat management.
At least one heat-supplementing plasma gun 9 for supplementing heat is arranged above the shunting chamber 3 and is used for supplementing heat to the metal liquid in the shunting chamber. The distribution chamber 3 is also provided with at least one temperature detection module, for example a thermocouple, for detecting the temperature of the metal liquid and can be characterized visually outside the distribution chamber.
Therefore, the temperature of the molten metal in the shunting chamber is ensured to meet the smelting crystallization condition, so that the molten metal has enough heat and the liquid form is kept.
As shown in fig. 1, molten metal melted in a water-cooled copper hearth in a melting chamber 2 is introduced into a distribution chamber 3, and is distributed into a multi-channel crystallization mechanism 7 through a plurality of distribution ports 11 of the distribution mechanism, thereby performing crystallization. Wherein the multi-channel crystallization mechanism 7 is arranged right below the flow dividing mechanism and is provided with crystallizers 7-1 which are in one-to-one correspondence with the flow dividing ports.
The pull-down mechanism 12 is arranged below the inner part of the crystallizer and can move vertically to pull or support the titanium alloy billet through the driving of a motor. In the figure, the pull-down device 12 is located between the distribution chamber 3 and the storage chamber 4, and is connected with the lower part of the multi-channel crystallization mechanism 7. Thus, the pull-down device can be controlled by a motor, is in a round rod shape, has the same diameter as that of the single crystallizer 7-1, and is made of pure titanium preferably, so that the components of the cast ingot are ensured. The pulling-down device can play a role in fixedly supporting the crystallizer during smelting, and can play a role in pulling the ingot to the storage chamber after smelting. After the drawn ingot reaches a certain length, it can be cut into a specified size (e.g., 1m, 2m or other fixed length size) by the cutting plasma gun 19.
The receiving mechanism 13 is arranged below the multi-channel crystallization mechanism and is positioned inside the receiving chamber 4. The material receiving mechanism 13 is provided with material receiving pipes 13-2 which are in one-to-one correspondence with the crystallizers 7-1. The pulling-down mechanism cuts the titanium alloy billet pulled down from the crystallizer to a preset length, keeps the titanium alloy billet in the corresponding material receiving pipe, opens the material receiving pipe 13-2 after turning over, and slides the titanium alloy billet to the conveying belt 5. Wherein the bottom of the material receiving pipe 13-2 is closed.
Preferably, as shown in fig. 3-6, the material receiving mechanism 13 is a turnover type material receiving mechanism, and includes a turnover rod 13-1 supported in the material receiving chamber and a motor for driving the turnover rod 13-1 to turn over up and down, the plurality of material receiving pipes 13-2 are open type material receiving pipes, and the plurality of material receiving pipes 13-2 are arranged on the turnover rod at equal intervals. Therefore, the material receiving pipe is driven by the motor to move between the material receiving position and the material placing position synchronously, and after the material receiving pipe reaches the material placing position, the material receiving pipe is opened and inclined for a certain angle, so that the titanium alloy billet 100 slides into the conveying belt 5. And the conveying belt is used for conveying the titanium alloy billet to the rolling mechanism 6 for continuous rolling forming. Preferably, the conveyor belt is a high temperature alloy steel conveyor belt and is provided with rollers at the lower part.
In operation, the open material receiving pipe 13 is positioned right below the crystallizer, after the ingot is pulled to the open material receiving pipe 13, the sliding turnover rod 13-1 is rotated, the vertical sample is rotated to the horizontal direction and slightly inclined towards the conveying belt by a certain angle, for example, 3-5 degrees, the sliding turnover rod 14 is descended to be 0.2-0.3m above the conveying belt 5, and then the open material receiving pipe 13 is opened, so that the titanium alloy billet can slide into the conveying belt 5 for transmission.
Referring to fig. 1, preferably, the crystallizers 7-1 are water-cooled copper crystallizers, which are vertically arranged at equal intervals and provided with a thermal barrier material coating on the outer surface of each crystallizer.
As shown in fig. 2, a plurality of crystallizers 7-1 are arranged in a line and spaced apart from each other. In a further embodiment, the distribution of the plurality of crystallisers is arranged in an equilateral triangle, spaced apart from each other. A water cooling channel surrounding a plurality of crystallizers is also arranged in the multi-channel crystallizing mechanism 7.
The above examples are all described by taking 3 preferred crystallizers as examples.
Preferably, the thermal barrier material coating thickness of each mold surface is equal in a plurality of molds. As a preferable scheme, in the embodiment of the invention, the thermal barrier material coating is especially a 7YSZ thermal barrier coating with 7 wt% of yttrium oxide Y2O3Of zirconium oxide ZrO2The material, 7YSZ for short, is used for avoiding the influence of heat conduction and radiation effect among all crystallizers on the internal stress variation uniformity as much as possible so as to ensure the thermal stability and uniformity of the sample in the solidification process.
And the molten metal enters a crystallizer 7-1 after being shunted, and a titanium alloy billet sample can be obtained after cooling. The inner diameter of the single water-cooled copper crystallizer 7-1 is 5-20mm, and the thickness of the thermal barrier material coating which is added on the outer layer is preferably 5-10 mm. Therefore, under the control of a certain coating thickness, a certain heat conduction efficiency is ensured, meanwhile, the uneven heat exchange of the slender rod possibly caused by the flow velocity of an external water cooling device is reduced through the thermal barrier effect of the coating, the influence of heat radiation between crystallizers is reduced, and therefore the microstructure variation and property degradation caused by the heat stress in the metal are reduced.
In connection with the illustration, the rolling mechanism preferably comprises a rolling chamber and rolls (16, 17) arranged in the rolling chamber for performing a multi-pass rolling of the titanium alloy billet, wherein a heat-compensating treatment, such as a heat-compensating treatment by a heating furnace, is also performed before entering the rolling chamber.
The implementation of the short run preparation of TF400 titanium rods and Ti-6Al-4V rods is described and illustrated below with reference to further examples.
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The embodiment provides a high-efficiency and high-flux preparation method of a titanium alloy (TF400) titanium rod, which comprises the following steps:
feeding: 68.53kg of sponge titanium, 1.19kg of Fe particles and 0.28kg of Fe-B intermediate alloy are poured into a smelting chamber along a feeding pipeline, then a vacuum valve is closed, rough pumping and fine pumping are carried out until the pressure reaches 0.5Pa, and argon protective gas is filled.
Alloy smelting and shunting: the plasma gun was activated to melt the feedstock into a liquid state.
Shunting and solidifying: when the melt flows to the shunting chamber, the heat compensating device is opened to ensure that the temperature of the melt is between 1200 and 1350 ℃, thereby avoiding the temperature reduction of the melt. High-temperature melt flows into 3 crystallizers respectively through the shunt openings, and the periphery of each crystallizer is wrapped with a 7YSZ thermal barrier coating, so that no heat conduction and heat influence exist among different crystallizers, and the heat uniformity of a single crystallizer is ensured. After 6 hours of cooling and solidification, 3 cast ingots with the diameter of 12mm can be obtained at one time.
Pulling down and separating: and after the cast ingot is cooled, pulling out the bar material by using a pull-down device at the speed of 30mm/min, and cutting off the bar material by using a plasma gun after the length of the sample reaches 2 m.
Storing and rotating: the ingot of length 2m was then pulled into an open receiving pipe, placed horizontally on a conveyor belt by sliding the turning bar, and transferred to the rolling chamber at a speed of 3 m/min.
Rolling and forming: and (4) after the cast ingot is conveyed to a rolling chamber, rolling the ingot for multiple times to obtain the titanium rod with the diameter of 10mm, and finally obtaining the titanium rod suitable for ocean engineering.
In the preparation process of each embodiment of the invention, the water cooling system is kept running, and the existing water cooling system can be adopted as the water cooling system.
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The embodiment provides a high-efficiency and high-flux preparation method of a Ti-6Al-4V bar, which comprises the following steps:
feeding: 63kg of sponge titanium and 7kg of Al-V intermediate alloy are poured into a smelting chamber along a feeding pipeline, then a vacuum valve is closed, rough pumping and fine pumping are carried out until the pressure is 0.5Pa, and argon protective gas is filled.
Alloy smelting and shunting: the plasma gun was activated to melt the feedstock into a liquid state.
Shunting and solidifying: when the melt flows to the shunting chamber, the heat compensation device is opened to ensure that the temperature of the melt is between 1400 ℃ and 1500 ℃, thereby avoiding the temperature reduction of the melt. High-temperature melt flows into 3 crystallizers respectively through the shunt openings, and the periphery of each crystallizer is wrapped with a 7YSZ thermal barrier coating, so that no heat conduction and heat influence exist among different crystallizers, and the heat uniformity of a single crystallizer is ensured. After 6 hours of cooling and solidification, 3 cast ingots with the diameter of 10mm can be obtained at one time.
Pulling down and separating: and after the cast ingot is cooled, pulling out the bar material by using a pull-down device at the speed of 30mm/min, and cutting off the bar material by using a plasma gun after the length of the sample reaches 2 m.
Storing and rotating: the ingot of length 2m was then pulled into an open receiving pipe, placed horizontally on a conveyor belt by sliding the turning bar, and transferred to the rolling chamber at a speed of 3 m/min.
Rolling and forming: and (4) conveying the cast ingot to a rolling chamber, rolling the ingot to 8mm in diameter by multiple passes to obtain the final Ti-6Al-4V bar.
The scheme of the invention replaces the traditional production equipment with the novel high-efficiency high-throughput continuous casting and rolling equipment, thereby improving the production efficiency of producing titanium alloy bars and titanium bars for ocean engineering and reducing the use cost of the titanium bars.
In order to ensure that the performance requirements and safety requirements of the traditional titanium rod concrete in the marine environment are met, the titanium alloy rods produced by using the novel equipment in the embodiment are tested and compared in terms of tensile property, bond strength, corrosion resistance and bending property, and specific experimental results are as follows.
[ cost comparison ]
The price and the required time of 3 TF400 titanium rod finished products manufactured by the high-efficiency high-throughput continuous casting and rolling equipment and the traditional method are compared, and the results are shown in Table 1.
TABLE 1 cost comparison of two titanium bars
| Finished product specification | Price of finished product | Time required for sample preparation | |
| By conventional means | 10mm | 150 yuan/kg | 150H |
| Example 1 | 10mm | 130 yuan/kg | 60H |
According to the titanium alloy titanium rod for ocean engineering in the embodiment, the tensile property, the bond stress, the corrosion resistance and the bending property are tested, so that the TF400 titanium rod produced by the method meets the relevant performance requirements of the traditional titanium rod in the ocean environment.
[ ingredient test ]
In order to ensure that the titanium rod produced by the high-efficiency high-throughput continuous casting and rolling equipment reaches the nominal composition in the actual composition, the central parts of the traditional titanium rod and the sample of the embodiment are selected, and the chemical compositions are respectively tested, and the results are shown in table 2.
TABLE 2 comparison of chemical compositions of two titanium alloys
| Fe | B | C | H | N | Ti | |
| By conventional means | 1.89 | 0.08 | 0.014 | 0.0012 | 0.004 | Balance of |
| Example 1 | 1.96 | 0.07 | 0.020 | 0.0010 | 0.008 | Balance of |
[ metallographic structure ]
The TF400 titanium rod produced by the high-efficiency high-flux continuous casting and rolling equipment is subjected to microstructure characterization, a central part sample is taken, the metallographic structure is shown in figure 7, and the alloy structure of the TF400 titanium rod prepared by the invention comprises a plurality of equiaxial alpha phases and a small number of beta phases and belongs to an equiaxial structure. Wherein the alpha phase proportion reaches more than 85 percent, and the microstructure morphology and the mechanical property of the titanium alloy are ensured.
[ tensile Property test ]
The two titanium rods are subjected to room temperature mechanical property test according to the requirements of GB/T228.1-2010, and the properties are shown in Table 3. In the embodiment, the tensile strength at room temperature of the TF400 titanium rod prepared by the method is 645.37Mpa, the yield strength at room temperature is 449.09Mpa, and the plastic elongation is 23.55%, which is close to the mechanical property of the TF400 titanium rod produced by the traditional method.
TABLE 3 comparison of mechanical Properties of two TF400 titanium rods
| Rm(Mpa) | Rp0.2(Mpa) | A(％) | |
| By conventional means | 636.56 | 444.36 | 25.17 |
| Example 1 | 645.37 | 449.09 | 23.55 |
[ grip Strength test ]
The two titanium rods are subjected to a bond stress performance test according to the requirements in GB/T50081-2002 standard of common concrete mechanical property test methods, the size of a sample is 150mm multiplied by 150mm, and the effective anchoring length is 80 mm. During the experiment, arrange the test piece bottom in on the press platform, the reinforcing bar at test piece top slightly contacts with instrument upper portion platform, later pressurizes step by step at the reinforcing bar top, and it no longer increases until the manometer, shows that the contact surface of reinforcing bar and concrete has begun to slide or cohere between reinforcing bar and the concrete has destroyed.
TABLE 4 comparison of the grip Performance of two TF400 titanium rods
The bond stress data of the two titanium rods are shown in table 4, and it can be seen that the titanium rod of example 1 has better bond stress than the traditional titanium rod, which also means that the bonding force between the titanium rod produced by the novel equipment and the concrete is better, and the slippage between the concrete and the titanium rod can be better prevented. Meanwhile, the mechanical properties such as yield strength and the like of the titanium rod concrete in the example 1 are also superior to those of the traditional titanium rod concrete.
[ Corrosion resistance ]
The corrosion resistance tests of the two titanium rods were completed in 3.5% NaCl solution, the sample size was 14mm × 450mm, the experimental time was 240h, and the specific corrosion rate results are shown in Table 5. As shown in Table 5, the titanium rods produced by any of the methods had excellent corrosion resistance, since stable TiO was formed in the titanium alloy in the seawater environment2The passive film has better protection effect on the surface of the alloy.
TABLE 5 comparison of the Corrosion resistance of two TF400 titanium rods
| Corrosion rate after 240h | Corrosion rate after 480h | |
| By conventional means | 0 | 0 |
| Example 1 | 0 | 0 |
[ bending Property test ]
The bending performance of the two titanium rods adopts a four-point bending test, and 1/3 parts in the beam span are pure bending sections. The test sample adopts titanium bar concrete, the size of the beam section is 100mm multiplied by 100mm, the beam length is 600mm, the calculated span is 400mm, and the test sample penetrates into the two ends of the support part by 100mm respectively. Concrete strength rating C30 was used, the thickness of the protective layer was 15mm, and the specific bending data are shown in Table 6. It can be seen that the titanium bars produced with the novel apparatus have similar and better flexural properties when used in conjunction with concrete.
TABLE 6 comparison of bending Properties of two TF400 titanium rods
| Cracking load Pα/KN | Yield load Py/KN | Ultimate load Pu/KN | |
| By conventional means | 21 | 88 | 132 |
| Example 1 | 24 | 90 | 133 |
By combining the analysis, the titanium rod produced by the high-efficiency high-pass continuous casting and rolling equipment has lower cost and shorter processing time. The titanium rod is similar to the traditional titanium rod in the aspects of tensile property, bond stress property, corrosion resistance, bending property and the like, and is more excellent in some mechanical properties.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments, it is not intended to be limited thereto. Those skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be determined by the appended claims.
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1. The utility model provides a titanium alloy rod high efficiency high flux continuous casting and rolling system which characterized in that, includes feed mechanism, smelting chamber, reposition of redundant personnel room, reposition of redundant personnel mechanism, multichannel crystallization mechanism, drop-down mechanism, receiving mechanism, conveyer belt and rolling mechanism, wherein:
the feeding mechanism is used for conveying raw materials into the smelting chamber;
the bottom of the smelting chamber is supported with a water-cooled copper hearth which is positioned below the outlet of the feeding mechanism and used for receiving and accumulating the conveyed raw materials, and a plasma gun is arranged above the water-cooled copper hearth and used for heating and smelting the raw materials to form metal liquid;
the shunting chamber is communicated with the smelting chamber, the shunting mechanism is arranged in the shunting chamber, and the molten metal formed in the water-cooled copper hearth is guided into the shunting chamber and shunted into the multi-channel crystallization mechanism through a plurality of shunting ports of the shunting mechanism;
the multi-channel crystallization mechanism is arranged right below the flow distribution mechanism and is provided with crystallizers corresponding to the flow distribution ports one by one;
the pull-down mechanism is arranged below the inner part of the crystallizer and can vertically move to pull down or support the titanium alloy billet through the driving of a motor;
the material receiving mechanism is arranged below the multi-channel crystallization mechanism and is provided with material receiving pipes which correspond to the crystallizers one by one, the material receiving pipes are kept in the corresponding material receiving pipes after the titanium alloy billet pulled down from the crystallizers reaches a preset length and is cut off, the material receiving pipes are opened after the titanium alloy billet is turned over, and the titanium alloy billet slides to the conveying belt;
the conveying belt is used for conveying the titanium alloy billet into the rolling mechanism for continuous rolling forming;
the multi-channel crystallization mechanism comprises three crystallizers, wherein the crystallizers are vertically arranged at equal intervals;
the three crystallizers are distributed in a straight line or in an equilateral triangle and are spaced from each other, and the outer surface of each crystallizer is provided with a thermal barrier material coating.
2. The high efficiency, high throughput continuous casting and rolling system of titanium alloy rods according to claim 1, wherein the thermal barrier material coating is a 7YSZ thermal barrier coating.
3. The titanium alloy rod high efficiency high throughput continuous casting and rolling system of claim 1 or 2, wherein the thermal barrier material coating thickness of each mold surface in the plurality of molds is equal and ranges between 5-10 mm.
4. The high efficiency, high throughput continuous casting and rolling system of titanium alloy rods according to claim 3, wherein the inner diameter of said crystallizer is 5-20 mm.
5. The high-efficiency high-throughput continuous casting and rolling system for the titanium alloy bars according to claim 1, wherein the receiving mechanism is a turnover receiving mechanism and comprises a turnover rod supported in a receiving chamber and a motor for driving the turnover rod to turn over up and down, the receiving tubes are open-type receiving tubes and are arranged on the turnover rod at equal intervals, the receiving tubes are driven by the motor to move between a receiving position and a discharging position synchronously, and the receiving tubes are opened and inclined at a certain angle after reaching the discharging position, so that the titanium alloy bars slide into the conveying belt.
6. The titanium alloy bar high efficiency high throughput continuous casting and rolling system of claim 1, wherein the conveyor belt is a high temperature alloy steel conveyor belt and is provided with rollers at a lower portion.
7. The high-efficiency high-throughput continuous casting and rolling system for the titanium alloy bars as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one plasma gun and a temperature detection module for detecting the temperature of the molten metal in the shunting chamber are arranged above the shunting chamber, and the at least one plasma gun is arranged for supplementing heat to the molten metal in the shunting chamber.
8. The titanium alloy rod high efficiency high throughput continuous casting and rolling system of claim 1, wherein said multi-pass crystallization mechanism is further provided with water cooling channels surrounding said plurality of crystallizers.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the rolling mechanism comprises a rolling chamber and rollers disposed in the rolling chamber for performing multiple passes of rolling the titanium alloy billet, and wherein the titanium alloy billet is further subjected to a heat-compensating treatment by a heating furnace before entering the rolling chamber.
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